Everyone can afford to give away a smile.
Where your fear is, there your task is.
Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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.
You can only heal the wounds of others if you have them yourself.
To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.
One is not enlightened by imagining all sorts of images of light, but by becoming aware of one’s own inner darkness.
There is no change from darkness to light, from stillness to motion, without emotion.
If we want to change something in the child, we must first examine it and see if it is not something better to change in ourselves.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
There is no coming consciousness without pain.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
Children are brought up by what the adult is, not by what he says.
Dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Where there is power there is no love, where there is love there is no power.
Your visions will only become clear when you look into your own heart. Those who look outside dream: those who look inside awaken.
Do not fear chaos, for in chaos the new is born.
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it did not have its counterpart in sadness.
That’s why people love plays, movies, or preachers that move them to tears because they enjoy their own emotion.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
All culture is an expansion of our consciousness.
We don’t have secrets, the real secrets have us.
There are many more people who are afraid of the unconscious than one would expect.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It’s easier to get to Mars than to get to yourself.
Sensation establishes what is actually given, thinking enables us to recognize its meaning, feeling tells us its value, and finally intuition points to the possibilities of the whence and whither that lie within the immediate facts.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understanding of ourselves.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
You are what you do, not what you say you will do.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
