As Jung said once, we all walk in shoes too small for us. And so, what he meant by that metaphor, we all live in adaptive, protective psychologies, that's understandable but it keeps us locked in. It keeps us blocked. It keeps us stuck.~James Hollis

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.~Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.— Kamand Kojouri

We know that every time a human being makes real progress in consciousness, makes this evolutionary jump toward a higher level of consciousness, the whole world for him has changed; relationships change and the outlook on the outer world and on his own situation changes~von Franz

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.~Richard Rohr

The weaker the consciousness of a person is, the more he or she is likely to get fixated in projection, even when the reality has long departed from it, and he or she will remain captive to the power of history, the agenda of longing, and the wheel of repetition.~James Hollis

Apocalypse is not about a fiery Armageddon, but about the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.~Joseph Campbell, Thou art That

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.'~Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly careful not to impose one's own will and conviction on the patient. You have to give him a certain amount of freedom. ~CG Jung

While it is easy to be intimidated by the largeness of life, seduced by lethargy, diverted by popular culture, and assimilated into collective fantasies that have little to do with our soul’s agenda, we still have to face ourselves in the end.~James Hollis

Magic is deeply embedded in the human psyche. More than that, it is a projection of the human psyche. Though it has, effectively, been banished from the land, still it surfaces in thought and language: in dreams, in madness, in superstition and ritual. . .~Neel Burton

[T]he greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars. ~Aristotle, Poetics

One of the most dangerous myths is the myth of a life without myth, the story of a realist who has freed himself from all that nonsense.~David Loy

One cannot avoid the shadow unless one remains neurotic, and as long as one is neurotic one has omitted the shadow. The shadow is the block which separates us most effectively from the divine voice.~CG Jung

When I met Jung, he told me to be true to myself, and true to my type. And that is what I wish for you. If you go against your typological makeup, you go against your grain, and you will get splinters. Go with it, and your life will have ease, flow, and purpose.~Robert A Johnson

The feminine qualities of receptivity, of nurturing in silence and secrecy, are (whether in man or woman) as essential to creation as their masculine opposites and in no way inferior.~Helen M. Luke, The Way of Woman

When we are preoccupied with survival, we cannot play. We have lost our trust. When we were talking about what it feels like to be creative, one of you mentioned the experience of not being bound by time and space – being “taken out of yourself”~Liz Greene

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our own nature.~CG Jung, Man and His Symbols

As [Jung] says: “Consciousness is continually widened through the confrontation with previously unconscious contents, or—to be more accurate—could be widened if it took the trouble to integrate them.'~Robin Robertson, The Shadow's Gift

CG Jung, Psychology and Alchemy