Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.
Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. Translation: 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 right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
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