The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Carl JungYoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl JungAll the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl JungThe artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
Carl JungThe utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.
Carl Jung