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

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

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...

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how...

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...

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

Člověk se přirozeně nemůže od dětství osvobodit, aniž by se jím podrobně nezabýval, jak již dlouho víme z Freudových výzkumů. Čistě intelektuálním věděním přitom nelze ničeho dosáhnout. Účinné je pouze rozpomenutí se, které je zároveň...

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

Každému je jasné, jakou psychologickou skutečnost označuje jako pud, ale co vlastně pud jako takový je, jasné není. Právě tak je jasné, že například obraz Boha odpovídá určitému komplexu psychologických skutečností a že tedy představuje...

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

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

O paciente precisa aprender a distinguir o eu do não-eu, isto é, da psique coletiva. Assim, adquire o material com que vai ter que se haver daí em diante e por muito tempo ainda. A...

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

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

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

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman’s book: Incognito

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...

Už jsem řekl, že samostatnost imaga zůstává nevědomá, neboť se ztotožňuje se samostatností objektu. Smrt objektu by tedy měla vyvolat zvláštní psychologické účinky, neboť objekt pak úplně nemizí – existuje v nehmatatelné formě dál. Víme,...

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you – are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from...

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are...

The gods have become our diseases.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the...

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...

Kdo to ale vlastně je ten stát? Je to nahromadění všech bezvýznamných, z nichž se skládá. Kdybychom jej mohli personifikovat, získali bychom individuum, či spíše monstrum, které by stálo v duchovním i etickém ohledu daleko...

Acel gest simbolic de a o întrona pe Déesse Raison la Notre-Dame pare să fi însemnat pentru lumea apuseană ceva asemănător cu tăierea Stejarilor lui Wotan de către misionarii creştini, căci nici atunci, nici acum,...

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

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Ne înşelăm dacă credem că inconştientul este ceva inofensiv … Desigur, el nu este primejdios în orice condiţii; dar de îndată ce apare o nevroză, acesta e un semn că în inconştient există o acumulare...

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

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

existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

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

Nikdo rozumný nepopře, že organizace naší společnosti, nazvaná stát, pociťuje nejen živou potřebu získat větší autoritu, ale i okolnosti ji k tomu nutí. Děje-li se to s dobrovolným souhlasem na základě vědomého pochopení občanů, dociluje...

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Co se od našich vzorů můžeme naučit, je především ta skutečnost, že duše skrývá obsahy nebo je vystavena vlivům, jejichž asimilace se pojí s největšími nebezpečími. Když tedy staří alchymisté své tajemství připisovali hmotě a...

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for...

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.(on being 36 yrs old)

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

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

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only...

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

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....

Where your fear is,there is your task.

Vždyť lidé dělají všechno, i to nejabsurdnější, aby unikli vlastní duši. Věnují se indické józe jakéhokoliv zaměření, dbají na příkazy ohledně jídla, učí se nazpaměť teosofii, modlí se mystické texty z celé světové literatury –...

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

Velikost historických osobností nikdy nespočívala v jejich absolutním podrobení konvenci, ale tkvěla naopak v jejich osvobození od konvence a ve spásné svobodě. Vyčnívaly jako vrcholky hor z masy, která setrvávala v zajetí kolektivních úzkostí, přesvědčení,...

these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time...