Carl Jung

The persona is a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual.

The symbol is the best possible expression of a relatively unknown thing.

The individuation process is the conscious realization of one's unique psychological reality, including both strengths and limitations.

The greatest tragedy of the soul is when it loses its connection to the unconscious.

The experience of the numinous is the essential factor in all religious experience.

The archetype is an archaic, primordial image, a universal thought-form or idea.

The psychotherapist must be able to stand the tension of the opposites.

The unconscious has a teleological function, meaning it strives towards a goal.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they sought. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has no sufficient content, no meaning, no purpose.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a feeling of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

We are not born with a personality, we develop one.

The soul is not an 'it,' but a 'who.'

Without the experience of the opposites, there is no experience of the totality.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only darkness but also light, not only bestial but also spiritual, and not only demonic but also divine.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The only function of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The human personality is like a tree, and its roots are in the collective unconscious.

The world is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be experienced.

The ego is a complex of ideas which constitutes the center of my field of consciousness and appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was any ego consciousness.