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The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire
The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious