We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.
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.
The self is our life’s goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind’s evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.