My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
Carl JungFidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
Carl JungEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl JungIt seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own โexistenceโ and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.
Carl JungIf 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 JungFilling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
Carl Jung