Murray Stein explains the No 1 and No 2 personalities Jung mentions in "Memories, Dreams, Reflections."

Jung once observed that our neuroses were in fact our private religions, that is, where the bulk of our spirit is actually invested~James Hollis

Saying goodbye to a neurotic attitude is a very sad business and nobody has ever got out of it without feeling sad, for unfortunately a neurosis is a lovable condition and one resents being separated from it.~Marie-Louise von Franz, 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.~Erich Fromm, 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. ~James Hillman

Joseph Campbell observes that the quester is precisely a person who has failed, because his or her life does not work. Interior difficulties force questers to reorganize their life on a higher level, to become, out of necessity, adept at the art of living.~Bud Harris

We all have made the mistake of thinking someone else can be our healer, our thriller, our filling. It takes a long time to find it is not so, mostly because we project the wound outside ourselves instead of ministering to it within.~Clarissa Pinkola Estés, 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴

Looking at one's own shadow is not only disagreeable, it is no fun. . . but it has a great advantage: the more one knows about one's own wickedness, the more one is able to protect oneself against other people. In some sense the evil within oneself recognizes evil outside.~Marie-Louise von Franz

"One of the most frequent uses of places in dreams is to show you whose “turf” you are on, whose influence you are under. So a good way to understand the significance of a place is to ask who it belongs to." ~Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work

“But I doubt there are good examples of creativity that don’t involve divergent thinking, at least at key stages. ~The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk MD”

If the unconscious suggests something that seems crazy to me, I say to it: "Well, I think this is crazy nonsense. I am not going to do it. Go to hell!” Still, I add, "But if it is not crazy nonsense, please send me another dream and then I'll reconsider."~Marie Louise von Franz

Everything is ambiguous; everything is always shifting and changing, and there are as many different takes on any given situation as there are people involved. Trying to find absolute rights and wrongs is a trick we play on ourselves to feel secure and comfortable~Pema Chödrön

"The most difficult patients are the so-called intellectuals. They cultivate a "compartment psychology." Anything can be settled by an intellect that is not subject to the control of feeling and yet the intellectual still suffers from a neurosis if feeling is undeveloped." ~CG Jung

The task of the hero within is to overthrow the powers of darkness, namely, fear and lethargy. All those tales of defeating the dragon are mythopoetic versions of overthrowing the power of that which would swallow us, as both fear and lethargy do on a daily basis.~James Hollis

The worst thing we can do to others is burden them with our unconscious material and yet we cannot avoid doing so.~James Hollis, 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘴

If you have really worked on your complexes, you become more or less untouchable and you are no longer influenced by poisonous gossip. As long as poisonous talk can get to you, it means there is some shadow element around that isn't yet integrated.~Marie-Louise von Franz

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.~Pema Chödrön

To be wild is not to be crazy like a criminal or psychotic, but “mad as the mist and snow.” The marks of wildness are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and a vivacious curiosity in the face of the unknown. ~ Robert Bly

Jung saw a deeper purpose in projection: projection leads to consciousness. Projection occurs when consciousness refuses to acknowledge some symbolic expression which is trying to emerge from the unconscious. ~Robin Robertson, 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴

Anyone who is unable to understand a god sees it as a devil. "Devil" is a word we use for another peoples' god.~Joseph Campbell, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨

Unconscious jealousy is one of the most destructive forces that exist, whereas jealousy that is realized, known, and suffered from becomes relatively harmless." ~Barbara Hannah, 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨: 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬

Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love --and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.~ Joseph Campbell

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.~Marion Woodman

"When our metaphors of God are no longer seen as metaphors, but as literal descriptions, then God is dead, because we have killed him with our words and literalism."~David Tacey, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥

A great deal of psychiatry advocates social adjustment at all costs, and Jung was opposed to any conditioning that leads to a betrayal of soul. He recommended that …we cultivate a little madness and some secret space, so that the soul can flourish."~David Tacey, How to Read Jung

This is what the Hebrew prophets said: if the sacred is not nurtured, the underworld will erupt, contaminating the world with the wrong kind of spirits, leading to a perilous situation. ‘Our times have demonstrated what it means when the gates of the psychic underworld are thrown open’. ~David Tacey

"While collective events could release the demons of the unconscious, the only resolution to collective conflicts was through the inner revolution of the individual. Psychotherapy offered itself as a vehicle through which this could occur."~CG Jung, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧

Jung’s conviction is that the most effective way to redeem or transform the world is first of all to transform the little piece of it that is oneself. – Edward Edinger

"People get absolutely intolerable when they have a creative idea in their womb and can't bring it out. They're neurotic, aggressive, irritable, and depressed. So then one has to help them bring the child out."~Marie Louise von Franz, A Matter of Heart

"While collective events could release the demons of the unconscious, the only resolution to collective conflicts was through the inner revolution of the individual. Psychotherapy offered itself as a vehicle through which this could occur."~CG Jung, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧

As Jung put it humorously, we all walk in shoes too small for us. Living within a constricted view of our journey & identifying with old defensive strategies, we unwittingly become the enemies of our own growth, our own largeness of soul, through our repetitive, history-bound choice.~James Hollis

What if the Jung we teach is the safe half? Catafalque (Peter Kingsley) urges a return to the Red Book, descent, and a living cosmos—both/and: scholarship + soul. youtu.be/1Pwzsvlpr28?... via @YouTube

[I]ndividuation is a sin; it is an assertion of one particle against the gods, and when that happens even the world of the gods is upset, then there is turmoil. ~CG Jung, 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳

The shadow reminds you that what you value the most may be badly shaken if you let it in. The repugnance usually hides a very deep fear, a fear of being annihilated as the person you know yourself to be. I think that the older you get, the harder it is to face this threat.~Liz Greene

Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.~CG Jung, 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘶

The word suffer in its original sense means "to allow,". So to suffer creatively is simply to allow what is, to stop fighting it & instead to affirm your life. Creative suffering is allowing what is & saying "yes!" Such experience is redemptive in that it leads to healing & self-knowledge~RA Johnson