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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The gods have become our diseases.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Na hranicích logiky sice končí věda, ne však příroda, která vzkvétá i tam, kam ještě žádná teorie nepronikla.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”

- Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Ale žádný vysoko vzrostlý, vznešený strom se ještě nikdy nevzdal svých temných kořenů. Roste nejen nahoru, nýbrž také dolů. Jistě je naprosto důležité to, kam člověk jde; ale stejně důležitá mi připadá otázka: Kdo kam jde? A ono "kdo" vždycky vede k "odkud".

To, že na nás božství působí, můžeme konstatovat jen prostřednictvím psyche, přičemž ale nejsme schopni rozlišit, zda tato působení pocházejí od Boha, nebo z nevědomí, tj. nelze stanovit, zda božství a nevědomí jsou dvě různé veličiny. Obojí jsou mezní pojmy pro transcendentáln�

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Avšak jako tvůrčí člověk je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

Osamělost nevzniká tím, že by člověk kolem sebe neměl lidi, nýbrž spíše tím, že jim nemůže sdělit věci, které se mu jeví jako důležité, nebo že považuje za platné myšlenky, které jiní považují za nepravděpodobné.

Lékařská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neštěstí.

Primitiv si minimálně uvědomuje sám sebe a současně se maximálně vztahuje k objektu, který na něj dokonce může vyvíjet přímý magický nátlak. Celá primitivní magie a náboženství spočívají v těchto magických vztazích k objektu, jež. se neskládají z ničeho jiného, než z p

Suma unui milion de zerouri nu face nici măcar unu.

The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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