Quotes About Balance

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.

Show me a sane person and I will cure him for you.

It seems to be a sin in the eyes of nature to hide our insufficiency—just as much as to live entirely on our inferior side.

In my picture of the world there is a vast outer realm and an equally vast inner realm; between these two stands man, facing now one and now the other, and, according to his mood or disposition, taking the one for the absolute truth by denying or sacrificing the other.

If You Pay Close Attention, You will See that the Most Masculine Man has a Feminine Soul, and the Most Feminine Woman has a Masculine Soul.

The relation between conscious and unconscious is compensatory. This fact, which is easily verifiable, affords a rule for dream interpretation. It is always helpful, when we set out to interpret a dream, to ask: What conscious attitude does it compensate?

It is an every-day experience that our emotions are never at the level of our reasoning.

perhaps an equally dangerous, bewitching power resides in good as in evil. Essentially, the good needs to be regarded as an inherently no-less-dangerous principle than evil.

The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends into hell and becomes the devil.

The endless dilemma of culture and nature is always a question of too much or too little, never of either-or.

enantiodromia

there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

DüÅŸünme ve hissetme içsel z?tl?klar?n? kaybediyorlar ve art?k dinsel yönelimin etkisiz olduÄŸu yerde, zincirlerinden boÅŸanan ruhsal fonksiyonlar?n y?k?c? hakimiyetini frenleyecek bir tanr? bile yok...

In cases of neurosis and psychosis, the unconscious attempted to compensate the one-sided conscious attitude. The unbalanced individual defends himself against this, and the opposites become more polarized. The corrective impulses that present themselves in the language of the unconscious should be the beginning of a healing process, but the form in which they break through makes them unacceptable to consciousness.

A conscious capacity for one-sidedness is a sign of the highest culture, but involuntary one-sidedness, i.e., the inability to be anything but one-sided, is a sign of barbarism.

Whoever confuses these last two functions with feeling in this narrower sense, can obviously not acknowledge the rationality of feeling. But if they are separated from feeling, it becomes quite clear that feeling values and feeling judgements—that is to say, our feelings—are not only reasonable, but are also as discriminating, logical and consistent as thinking.

just as the wounder wounds himself, so the healer heals himself.

Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»

St. Thomas himself recalls the saying of Aristotle that "the thing is the whiter, the less it is mixed with black,"45 without mentioning, however, that the reverse proposition: "the thing is the blacker, the less it is mixed with white," not only has the same validity as the first but is also its logical equivalent. He might also have mentioned that not only darkness is known through light, but that, conversely, light is known through darkness.

If I recognize only nat- uralistic values, and explain everything in physical terms, I shall depreciate, hinder, or even destroy the spiritual development of my patients. And if I hold exclusively to a spiritual interpretation, then I shall misunderstand and do violence to the nat- ural man in his right to exist as a physical being.

What nature leaves imperfect, the art perfects

opposites, no judgment can be considered to be final

Ale žádný vysoko vzrostlý, vzneÅ¡ený strom se jeÅ¡tÄ› nikdy nevzdal svých temných koÃ…â"¢en?. Roste nejen nahoru, nýbrž také dol?. JistÄ› je naprosto d?ležité to, kam ?lovÄ›k jde; ale stejnÄ› d?ležitá mi pÃ…â"¢ipadá otázka: Kdo kam jde? A ono "kdo" vždycky vede k "odkud".

the unstable," by bringing order into chaos, by resolving disharmonies and centring upon the mid-point, thus setting a "boundary" to the multitude and focusing attention upon the cross, consciousness is reunited with the unconscious, the unconscious man is made one with his centre … and in this wise the goal of man's salvation and exaltation is reached.77