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Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
Sep 17, 2025
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
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.
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
Without freedom there can be no morality.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.
The sure path can only lead to death.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
You are what you do, not what you say.
The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.