“If you have all your wishes fulfilled, you have what could be called psychological entropy, that is death in an equable tepidity. “
C. G. Jung - Notes on the seminars
"Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life.
Therefore God breathed into Adam a living breath, that he might live. With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want to live.
She makes us believe incredible things, that life may be lived.
She is full of snares and traps, in order that man should fall, should reach the earth, entangle himself there, and stay caught, so that life should be lived; as Eve in the garden of Eden could not rest content until she had convinced Adam of the goodness of the forbidden apple.
Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.”
C.G. Jung, Coll Works vol 9
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
– Carl Jung
"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these
things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I
have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite
convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have
been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know." In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.
– Carl Jung
“You can dismiss a thing entirely, but you have to search for its symbolic meaning, and the symbolic meaning is the thing that has to be accepted. The best way of dealing with the unconscious is the creative way. Create for instance a fantasy. Work it out with all the means at your disposal. Work it out as if you were it or in it, as you would work out a real situation in life which you cannot escape. All the difficulties you overcome in such a fantasy are symbolic expressions of psychological difficulties in yourself, and inasmuch as you overcome them in your imagination you also overcome them in your psyche.”
C. G. Jung, letter to Mrs N, 25th of November 1932, Letters vol 1 pg 109.