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...

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.

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

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...

Když nás něco rozzlobí až do nepříčetnosti, nepřipustíme si, že příčina našeho hněvu nemusí spočívat jen mimo nás, ve věci nebo osobě, která nás rozzlobila. A tak svěřujeme věcem moc, jež nás může přivést do...

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals...

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...

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

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...

psyche” not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowing strange and unseizable potencies to act upon...

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

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...

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

I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood...

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...

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

Náboženské symboly jsou fenomény života, prostě skutečnostmi, nikoli názory. Když církev po takovou a takovou dobu lpí na tom, že Slunce obíhá kolem Země, ale v 19. století toto hledisko opouští, pak se může v...