“He who opens the door to himself opens the door to God.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“When we take up the task of exploring the unconscious, the unconscious takes up the task of exploring us.”
“If the path before you is clear, it’s probably someone else’s”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown…. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.”
”We don’t cure our neuroses, our neuroses cure us.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.”
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgments and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité négligeable. The contradiction, the paradoxical evaluation of humanity by man himself, is in truth a matter for wonder, and one can only explain it as springing from an extraordinary uncertainty of judgment – in other words, man is an enigma to himself. This is understandable, seeing that he lacks the means of comparison necessary for self-knowledge. He knows how to distinguish himself from the other animals in point of anatomy and physiology, but as a conscious, reflecting being, gifted with speech, he lacks all criteria for self-judgment. He is on this planet a unique phenomenon which he cannot compare with anything else. The possibility of comparison and hence of self-knowledge would arise only if he could establish relations with quasi-human mammals inhabiting other stars."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“The unconscious is the great source of human creativity and growth. Every experience, even the seemingly insignificant, leaves an impression on the unconscious mind, and these impressions later shape our dreams, thoughts, and actions.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”