We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
