It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows that there is a problem. There is general discontent with our way of life but almost no one knows specifically where to look for its origin.~Robert A. Johnson

To attain the Grail you must become who you are, realize your unique potentiality, become a type unto yourself. For no one else exactly like you has ever lived before, and no one exactly like you will ever live in the future.~Keiron le Grice, The Rebirth of the Hero

We quite forget that we can be as deplorably overcome by a virtue as by a vice. There is a sort of frenzied, orgiastic virtuousness which is just as infamous as a vice and leads to just as much injustice and violence. ~CG Jung

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. —Washington Irving

People often asked Dr. Jung , “Will we make it?” referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their inner work.” This soul work is the one thing that will pull us through any emergency.~Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow

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Stories never fail us, because, as Isaac Bashevis Singer says, "events never grow stale." There's more wisdom in a story than in volumes of philosophy.~Philip Pullman

Only after I had familiarized myself with alchemy did I realize that the unconscious is a process, and that the psyche is transformed or developed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious.~CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

We have to throw off the dead weight of dogma and reach into the soul, even if much of what we discover in the soul is similar to the wisdom already enshrined in dogma.~David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit

The role of the analyst is to unmask those subterfuges and reveal the hidden truths. The crucial consequence of this approach is that, in the Freudian scheme a symbol is there because it hides, whereas in the Jungian approach, a symbol is there because it reveals.~Yoram Kaufmann

If one can possibly avoid it, one ought never to identify with an archetype, for, as psychopathology and certain contemporary events show, the consequences are terrifying.~CG Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9

The important point, for Jung, is that we make an individual contact with the sources that have become petrified in dogmatic forms, and are now lost to consciousness. ~David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit

Psychologically, there is nourishment in wounding. When psychological blood flows, it can dissolve hardened defenses. This then can be the beginning of true productivity. In dreams the imagery of blood often connotes moments when real feeling & change are possible.~Stanton Marlan

Although Jung met outer demands unstintingly, he realized more and more that it is the inner life that counts, and that his efficiency in outer tasks depended entirely on how unflinchingly he faced the demands that the unconscious made to become conscious.~Barbara Hannah

Dreams produce their own kind of transformation within the psyche, but when the ego becomes more consciously involved either in interpretation or in active imagination, the degree of transformation is greater.~Jeffrey Raff, The Wedding of Sophia

The illusion keeps pulling you back into forgetting. Lost in your melodrama, you keep forgetting into it. Sometimes you spill the water. You will keep forgetting & remembering & forgetting and remembering. And every now and then, you remember. Keep your eye on the mark.~Ram Dass

In one of his essays, Jung compares modern humanity to Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods and invoked their wrath. The postmodern person has stolen spirituality from religion, and in this sense we have committed "a Promethean sin".~David Tacey

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People often asked Dr. Jung , “Will we make it?” referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their inner work.” This soul work is the one thing that will pull us through any emergency. ~Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow