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Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.