Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us.
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
Psychological type is nothing static – it changes in the course of life.
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail.
To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable – perh aps everything.
One cannot live without inconsistency.
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.