"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
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"In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole."
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves."
"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."
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words."
"At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche."
"The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?"
"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely."
"The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche."
"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."
"Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature."
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead."
"When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands."
"We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone."