40. In God's omnipotence He will see to it that nothing really evil comes of such tests of courage. If one fulfills the will of God one can be sure of going the right way.
It was obedience which brought me grace, and after that experience I knew what God's grace was. One must be utterly abandoned to God; nothing matters but fulfilling His will.
47. I must take the responsibility, it is up to me how my fate turns out. I had been confronted with a problem to which I had to find the answer. I knew that I had to find the answer out of my deepest self, that I was alone before God, and that God alone asked me these terrible things.
103. I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know.
113. In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.
117. Therapy only really begins after the investigation of that wholly personal story. If I know the secret story, I have a key to the treatment. The doctor's task is to find out how to gain that knowledge. - association test, dream interpretation, long and patient human contact. In therapy the problem is always the whole person, never the symptom alone. We must ask questions which challenge the whole personality.
123. For one who commits such a crime (murder) destroys his own soul.
131. Psychotherapy and analysis are as varied as are human individuals.
He must guard against falling into any specific, routine approach. In general one must guard against theoretical assumptions.
In dealing with individuals, only individual understanding will do. We need a different language for every patient.
I confront the patient as one human being to another. Analyst and patient sit facing one another, eye to eye; the doctor has something to say, but so has the patient.
132. It is equally important that he should understand himself. Only if the doctor knows how to cope with himself and his own problems will he be able to teach the patient to do the same.
133. When important matters are at stake, it makes all the difference whether the doctor sees himself as a part of the drama, or cloaks himself in his authority.
We must always be asking ourselves: How is our unconscious experiencing this situation(therapy)? We must therefore observe our dreams, pay the closest attention and study ourselves just as carefully as we do the patient.
137. The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.
141. Resistances- especially when they are stubborn- merit attention, for they are often warnings which must not be overlooked. The cure may e a poison that not everyone can take, or an operation which, when it is contraindicated, can prove fatal.
166. People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are too naive, like children, and it is necessary to tell them the facts of life, so to speak- to make it plain to them that they are human beings like all others.
One form of life cannot simply be abandoned unless it is exchanged for another.
186. Give away all that thou hast, then shalt thou receive.
192. I took great care to try to understand every single image, every item of my psychic inventory, and to classify them scientifically and, above all, to realize them in actual life. That is what we usually neglect to do. We allow the images to rise up, and maybe we wonder about them, but that is all. We do not take the trouble to understand them, let alone draw ethical conclusions from them. This stopping-short conjures up the negative effects of the unconscious. It is equally a grave mistake to think that it is enough to gain some understanding of the images and that knowledge can here make a halt. Insight into them must be converted into an ethical obligation. Not to so is to fall prey to the power principle, and this produces dangerous effects which are destructive not only to others but even to the knower. The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
197. Uniform development exists, at most, only at the beginning; later, everything points toward the center. This insight gave me stability, and gradually my inner peace returned.
215. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.
Blind acceptance never leads to a solution.
233. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.
A collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a personal problem, and in individual cases may give the impression that something is out of order in the realm of the personal psyche.
234. The cause of disturbance is not to be sought in the personal surroundings, but rather in the collective situation.
236. It is precisely the loss of connection with the past, our uprootedness which has given rise to the 'discontents' of civilization.
We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse.
248. They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless.
256. On determinism: This act we usually ascribe to the Creator alone, without considering that in so doing we view life as a machine calculated down to the last detail, which ,along with the human psyche, runs on senselessly, obeying foreknown and predetermined rules. In such a cheerless clockwork fantasy there is no drama of man, world and God.
Man is indispensable for the completion of creation; that, in fact, he himself is the second creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence.
269. The moment in which light comes is God. That moment brings redemption, release. To say that the sun is God is to blur and forget the archetypal experience of that moment.
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
275. I studiously avoided all so-called 'holy men'. I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own.
I must shape my life out of myself- out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.
277. Whenever 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.
291. I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.
297. Illness has brought acceptance of the conditions of existence as I see them and understand them, acceptance of my own nature, as I happen to be. At the beginning of the illness I had the feeling that there was something wrong with my attitude, and that I was to some extent responsible for the mishap. But when one follows the path of individuation, when one lives one's own life, one must take mistakes into the bargain; life would not be complete without them. There is no guarantee-not for a single moment-that we will not fall into error or stumble into deadly peril. We may think there is a sure road. But that would be the road of death. Then nothing happens any longer. Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.
311. Only here, in life on earth, where the opposites clash together, can the general level of consciousness be raised.
318. The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me.
325. Self-knowledge is the road to knowledge of God.
Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.
The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy.
341. Everything through which the 'other will' is expressed proceeds from man-his thinking, his words, his images, and even his limitations. Consequently he has the tendency to refer everything to himself, when he begins to think in clumsy psychological terms, and decides that everything proceeds out of his intentions and out of himself. With childlike naivete he assumes that he knows all his own reaches and knows what he is 'in himself'. Yet all the while he is fatally handicapped by the weakness of his consciousness and the corresponding fear of the unconscious. Therefore he is utterly unable to separate what he has carefully reasoned out from what has spontaneously flowed to him from another source.
343. In fact, he will be at odds with himself, and will find great difficulty in uniting his own multiplicity for purposes of common action. Even if he is outwardly protected by the social forms of the intermediary stage, he will have no defense against his inner multiplicity. The disunion within himself may cause him to give up, to lapse into identity with his surroundings.
They are the neurotics, who necessarily play hide-and-seek with others as well as with themselves, without being able to take the game really seriously. As a rule they end by surrendering their individual goal to their craving for collective conformity- a procedure which all the opinions, beliefs, and ideals of their environment encourage.
356. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.
One must sense that he lives in a world which in some respects is mysterious; that things happen and can be experienced which remain inexplicable.
395. Individuation means becoming a single, homogenous being, and in so far as 'individuality' embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self.
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