Carl Jung

In the end, the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world irrupted into this transitory one.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

The Self is our life's goal.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

The art of life is more like navigation than geographical discovery.

Shame is a soul-eating emotion.

The fact that most people comment only on the final result and not on the process is a great pity.

I wanted the proof that the riddle of the self could be solved, that the creator could descend to his creature.

The self is not only the center but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the center of this totality, just as the ego is the center of consciousness.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how much our ego-consciousness may extend.

The greatest danger for man is that he loses his soul without being aware of it.

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 season of which we are born.

The less an idea is understood, the more it is believed.

The capacity for directed thinking is an acquisition of civilization, and the more primitive the mind, the more it is dominated by fantasy.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which is morally neutral and which, if it is not made conscious, can be a source of great danger.

The highest goal of psychotherapy is to help the patient find his own way, not to impose a ready-made solution.

The ego is a complex of ideas which constitutes the centre of the field of consciousness and, in so far as it contains a personality, appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity.

The collective unconscious is a reservoir of the experiences of our species.

The anima is the archetype of life itself.