Occupation: Psychologist Birth: January 4, 1915 Death: February 17, 1998
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stal….
Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, n….
You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We ha….
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness..
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, prov….
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shak….
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner un….
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy th….
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact..
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary ….
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number form….
It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us..
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them..
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have n….
The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living….
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness,….
If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites….
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?.
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it..
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance..
If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and for….