The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
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.
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.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Dawn is born at midnight.
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. Translation: 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.
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit
The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.
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