Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.”
For better to come, good must stand aside.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
One must be able to let things happen.
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
We don’t really heal anything; we simply let it go.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
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.