Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
From Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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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