Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. —Rumi
The cure for any neurosis is taking its genius and accepting it.
—Robert Johnson
The right way to wholeness is full of detours and supposed wrong turns. —Carl Jung
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me, flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror, just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. —Rainer Maria Rilke
No despair of ours can alter the reality of things, nor stain the joy of the cosmic dance, which is always there. —Thomas Merton
Whenever a person turns sincerely to his unconscious psyche and it’s knowledge… by considering it’s objective expressions, such as dreams and spontaneous fantasies, sooner or later the image of the self will appear and confer upon the ego the potential for a renewal of its life.
—Marie-Louise von Franz
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences, you are released from the curse of pathology.
—C.G. Jung
Anyone with a vocation hears the inner voice. . . .the voice of a fuller life, of a wider, more comprehensive consciousness.
—C.G. Jung
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone for others. Unfold your own myth.
—Rumi
Without the soul the body is dead, and without the body the soul is unreal.
—C.G. Jung
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
What is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age. —Jung
Quiet the mind and open the heart.
—Jack Kornfield
Presence is the one thing necessary, and in many ways, the hardest thing of all. Just try to keep your heart open, your mind without division or resistance, and your body not somewhere else. Presence is the practical, daily task of all mature religion and all spiritual disciplines.
—Richard Rohr