The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
If a blind man can gradually be helped to see it is not to be expected that he will at once discern new truths with an eagle eye. One must be glad if he sees anything at all, and if he begins to under...
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money...
This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giv...
Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a...
Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.
To be normal is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful,
آن چه که ما خودآگاهی ناشی از تمدن می نامیم، به طور جدی از غرایز اصلیمان فاصله گرفته است. انسان عصر حاضر به علت شهر نشینی تا حدی به قدرت اراده و اختیار دست یافته و بدون توسل به دعا و سرود و دهل [در رقص...
Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his Notebooks: It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which … you may fin...
His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.
Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God...
I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word an incident reported in a ship’s log for the year 1686. By she...
To cherish secrets and to restrain emotions are psychic misdemeanours for which nature finally visits us with sickness—that is, when we do these things in private. But when they are done in communion...
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that make...
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify t...
If man no longer finds any meaning in his life, it makes no difference whether he wastes away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if he can use his freedom to create something meaningful is...
Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
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