If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.
Carl JungThe growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Carl JungWhenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force
Carl JungInstinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
Carl JungOur mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.
Carl Jung