The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes!

Medicine has until recently gone on the supposition that illness should be treated and cured by itself; yet voices are now heard which declare this view to be wrong, and demand the treatment of the sick person and not of the sickness. The same demand is forced upon us in the treatment of psychic suffering.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 -- 1961).

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

The ego, the subject of consciousness, comes into existence as a complex quantity which is constituted partly by the inherited disposition and partly by unconsciously acquired impressions and their attendant phenomena.

The modern man has lost all the metaphysical certainties of his mediæval brother, and set up in their place the ideals of material security, general welfare and humaneness.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

The artist's relative lack of adaptation turns out to his advantage; it enables him to follow his own yearnings far from the beaten path and to discover what it is that would meet the unconscious needs of his age.

In the unconscious, one cannot judge because of the great darkness there, but in the conscious there is light, and so there are differences; there is a criterion in consciousness which gives one a measure by which to judge.

The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.