Quotes About Insight

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.

This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.

The image of the world is half the world.

If a blind man can gradually be helped to see it is not to be expected that he will at once discern new truths with an eagle eye. One must be glad if he sees anything at all, and if he begins to understand what he sees.

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

It is as if the "eyes of the background" do the seeing in an impersonal act of perception.

Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? (..) Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared (..) Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, now looks like a storm in the valley seen from the mountaintop. This does not mean that the storm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it one is above it.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

We allow the images to rise up, and maybe we wonder about them, but that is all. We do not take the trouble to understand them, let alone draw ethical conclusions from them. This stopping-short conjures up the negative effects of the unconscious.

Intuition does not say what things 'mean' but sniffs out their possibilities. 'Meaning' is given by thinking.

The whole work lies in the solution

Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man's fundamental outlook.

If, for instance, I determine the weight of each stone in a bed of pebbles and get an average weight of five ounces, this tells me very little about the real nature of the pebbles.

The latter in any case relies too much upon the mysterious insight of the doctor, and, by appealing to his professional vanity, lays a dangerous trap for him. By taking refuge in the doctor's self-confidence and "profound" understanding, the patient loses all sense of reality, falls into a stubborn transference, and retards the cure.

A high regard for the unconscious psyche as a source of knowledge is by no means such a delusion as our Western rationalism likes to suppose. We are inclined to assume that, in the last resort, all knowledge comes from without. Yet today we know for certain that the unconscious contains contents which would mean an immeasurable increase of knowledge if they could only be made conscious.

Human thought cannot conceive any system or final truth that could give the patient what he needs in order to live: that is, faith, hope, love and insight.

Hasta que no hagas consciente lo que llevas en tu inconsciente, este último dirigirá tu vida y tú le llamarás destino

Os sentidos do homem limitam a percepção que este tem do mundo à sua volta.

Creative ideas, in my opinion, show their value in that, like keys, they help to "unlock" hitherto unintelligible connections of facts and thus enable man to penetrate deeper into the mystery of life.

Now it happened that Mind and Speech strove for priority one with the other. Mind said: I am better than you, for you speak nothing that I have not first discerned. Then Speech said: I am better than you, for I announce what you have discerned and make it known.