The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
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.
Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days ...
There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
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 gods have become our diseases.
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 t...
It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitiv...
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beaut...
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.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they h...
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
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.
