No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will com… Read More
1. Nature of Four Jung’s Quaternity, Mandalas, the Stone and the Self: On the Nature of Four: Jung's Quartrnity, Mandalas, the Stone and the Self by Carbonek Read More
An old German mystic has said: “God is a sigh in our souls.”: An old German mystic has said: "God is a sigh in our souls." Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group To L. Stehli… Read More
By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world.: By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world, and by his mind he demonstrates t… Read More
1Carl Jung: Could such a girl be helped to find her true self?: The case of the mediumistic girl, for example, was one such. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Pages 9-14 Read More
Carl Jung on Salome – Anthology: A thinker should fear Salome, since she wants his head, especially if he is a holy man. A thinker cannot be a holy person, otherwise he loses his head… Read More
Carl Jung on the “Serpent” [Anthology]: The serpent is the earthly essence of man of which he is not conscious. Its character changes according to peoples and lands, since it is… Read More
Individuation is by no means a rare thing or a luxury of the few: One could say that the whole world with its turmoil and misery is in an individuation process Read More
1. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.: To take the opposite position, and to agree with the patient offhand, is also of no use, but estranges him as much as condemnation Read More
Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher’s personal shortcomings.: Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher's personal shortcomings Read More
Every man has a quiet place in his soul: Every man has a quiet place in his soul, where everything is self-evident and easily explainable, a place to which he likes to retire from the confus… Read More
Carl Jung on “Chaos” Anthology.: The struggle with the unformed, with the chaos of Tiamat, is in truth a primordial experience. ~Carl Jung, CW 13, Para 286 Read More
A tough and coldblooded extraversion: A tough and coldblooded extraversion is the only thing that carries you across the stormy sea of your manifold activities Read More
Therefore individuation is a sin: Therefore individuation is a sin; it is an assertion of one particle against the gods, and when that happens even the world of the gods is upset, then there Read More
1. Carl Jung on “Perfection” – Anthology: The Gods envy the perfection of man, because perfection has no need of the Gods. But since no one is perfect, we need the Gods. ~C… Read More
Even the enlightened person remains what he is: “Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose… Read More
Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself.: As Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself Read More
1. I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher: For your orientation: I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher, merely an empiricist who ponders on certain experiences Read More
Kingdom of Heaven Anthology: He who wishes to take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm, to conquer and eradicate evil by force, is already in the hands of evil. Carl Jung, Conversations with Read More
The Mystery of Love: I]f we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation Read More
Our talk yesterday on the synchronicity: Our talk yesterday on the "synchronicity of dreams and external circumstances (Do you also use this term "synchronous” when there is a gap of 2… Read More
Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge: By this I do not mean to say that Yahweh is imperfect or evil, like a Gnostic demiurge. He is everything in its totality; therefore, amo… Read More
Great art till now has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth: Great art till now has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth, from the unconscious process of symbolization whic… Read More
It is always a naked figure because it shows man as he is without any veils, the true man.: Therefore if people put a figure in the center of a mandala, it is usually a naked figure, because… Read More
Carl Jung on Words Anthology: I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind Read More
Carl Jung: …I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life: On the contrary, I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life, without which we could never do anythi… Read More
Carl Jung on Buddha and Christ: I grasped the life of the Buddha as the reality of the self which had broken through and laid claim to a personal life Read More
1. Carl Jung on Detachment: You will remember that I read you a long passage from Meister Eckhart's sermon on "Detachment" at the end of the last lecture Read More
E.A. Bennet: The witch doctor at Bollingen: He saw this as a commentary upon his life, divided between the continents and somehow coming together, for he is constantly passing from one to th… Read More
Carl Jung: Hermeticism is not something you choose.: Hermeticism is not something you choose, it is a destiny, just as the ecclesia spiritualis is not an organization but an electio Read More
1. The Hero, the Leader, The Savior.: But, in the end, the hero, the leader, the savior, is one who discovers a new way to greater certainty. Everything could be left undisturbed did not the… Read More
1. Carl Jung on Intuition and Intuitives – Quotations: Intuitives are often very poor because they never wait for the harvest. Carl Jung, Lecture V 25May1934, Page 107 Read More
Wolfgang Pauli: Space and time were virtually turned by Newton into God’s right hand: sincerely, W. PAULI ~Wolfgang Pauli, Atom and Archetype, Pages 32-33 Read More
The snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time.: When I stressed three main aspects—the snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time symbol—this was just an attempt to organize… Read More
The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious:: The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: Read More
1In the evening I light the old lamps: I have refrained from electricity and heating itself stove and oven. In the evening I light the old lamps ... thoughts emerge, which date back to centu… Read More
Often the Hands will solve a mystery: "Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain." ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 181 Read More
1. For you should leave some trace in this world: It is utterly important that one should be in this world, that one really fulfills one’s entelechia, the germ of life which one… Read More
For you should leave some trace in this world: It is utterly important that one should be in this world, that one really fulfills one’s entelechia, the germ of life which one is Read More
We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure…: "We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure for uniting the opposites could just as well represent the individuation… Read More
1. Carl Jung: Classification (By Type) did not interest me very much.: Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) Read More