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In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.