In the words of Carl Jung:
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realization exists in the second half of life.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
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.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
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