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Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.
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
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.