Carl Gustav Jung

in a dream, such concepts can express their unconscious meaning. In our conscious thoughts, we restrain ourselves within the limits of rational statements

statements that are much less colorful because we have stripped them of most of their psychic associations.

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense.

A theologian once told me that Ezekiel’s visions were nothing more than morbid symptoms, and that, when Moses and other prophets heard “voices” speaking to them, they were suffering from hallucinations.

The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits, or gods.

Yet the emotions that effect us arc just the same. In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons.

The image of God has a shadow.

It is true, it is true, what I speak is the greatness and intoxication and ugliness of madness.

He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul.

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.