Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life..
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping..
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life..
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Enteri….
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives ….
The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone..
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own ….
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients..
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within..
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own a….
When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill..
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,….
We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream….
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day..
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can d….
Magic is the science of the jungle..
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Eg….
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious..
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants ….
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.
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols.….