Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
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.
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