“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. Our task is to observe inner processes like dreams and fantasies carefully, religiously giving them their own reality.”
“Yin, whose symbol is the tiger, is the dark, primordial ground of the soul, the dead of night, the place that the sun never touches. It is the earth principle in both its good and its dark, even dangerous, aspects.”
“The exclusion of the dark aspect is an injury, a violation of psychic wholeness which brings pain and suffering.”
“Not being loved is equated with being strange, different, even sick; with being leprous and contagious; with being marked by a stigma. The world was not open to receive the beginnings of a child. It was cold and threatening, devouring and undependable, a treacherous place. The individual who has had this experience feels guilty and seeks the cause for it in his own person. He introjects what has happened and feels that he is to blame. He carries a stigma that marks him and clings to him.”
“We discover, beside the ego with its goals and intentions, another wider and greater personality that embraces all the archaic forces and impulses that well up from the roots of our very being, often manifesting themselves against our will. Whenever the self comes to the fore, man has to grapple with all the dubious forces within. In this struggle, ego-consciousness becomes the ‘visibility of the self’. The other one, the all encompassing one, becomes visible through the ego, albeit dimly, as the part never fully comprehends the whole.”
“The car, as a tool of consciousness, is normally under the control of the ego.”
“Any misfortune is a hard and bitter lot, but sickness belongs more intimately to us, is closer to our skin. It gets to the very foundation, to the very core of man’s life, an inescapable reality which changes the outlook and rhythm of our daily existence.
Dreams images of illness, then, communicate a disturbance in the flow of life. Although the dreamer himself may have felt that all is not well and that he is in a bad way frustrated, cut off and depressed; although he may be tormented and complain and bemoan his fate, he will hardly ever think of himself as being sick. The more striking it is, then, when the dream pictures him as a sick man.
What is behind his sickness? He suffers because he is torn. The opposites are at war in him, in open conflict, with no solution in sight. There is nothing at present that can reconcile consciousness and the unconscious, which together make up the total man.”
“We can accept the conflict more readily when we find some meaning in it.”
“The process of individuation confronts us with the task of gathering the pieces of ourselves that are strewn all over the place, contained in projections on people and things, since they may hold a shadow content that the ego finds unacceptable. But the shadow, as Jung puts it, contains about 80 percent pure gold; all those positive values projected on other people who might embody the creativity and independence we so badly need for our own development.
In the same way we have to come to grips with those parts of ourselves what we encounter as forces of the inner world, without finding them in projection.”
“Thus consciousness is active in two ways in the individuation process: First it gathers together what belongs to the personality; and second it confronts the instinctual and archetypal forces of the psyche and tries to relate to them, so they may be transformed through the dialogue.”
“Any psychic development, any maturing, requires concentration on the emotion which caused the disturbance in the first place. Without turning inside, the struggle between the opposites will not lead to any clarification.”
“When a man is loyal to his inner law, he takes upon himself his own burden and conflicts: the burden of his complexity, his contradictions. If he does not evade the darkness, but faces it squarely, then he has truly left father and mother and is on the journey that leads into the core of his very existence.”
“All religions, all mythology, acknowledge the motif of the dual descent, i.e., the descent from human and divine parents.”
“It belongs to human nature that life does not only want to be lived in and for itself, but also wants to become conscious, recognized, realized, i.e., that it wants to be known to man.”
“Thus an outer event or outer object becomes the symbol-carrier when an inner image is projected onto it and amalgamates with it.”
“The images of myths and dreams arise from the primordial creative ground that was there before consciousness. Since it is common to all mankind, Jung named it “the collective unconscious.” It is also called “the objective psyche” because it functions independently from the subject.”
“God wants to become man. These forces demand to be related to integrated. At stake is man’s place, the ego’s place, to stand up and transform; and by transforming to be transformed. This is man’s problem, the human problem, the meaning in man’s life that goes beyond him.”
“When a dream pictures an outer situation, a setting, scenery, or a dream figure true to the outer reality and circumstances, then we can take its message on an objective level.”
