What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved – what then?
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one’s emotions.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.