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"This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic."
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
"Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake."
"One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
"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."
"Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing."
"The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements."
"Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something."
"Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior."
"The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection."
"The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character."
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
"Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved."
"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."
"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things."
"Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul"
"Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror"
"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."
"Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it"