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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Life is crazy and meaningful at once.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
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