Transcending Thoughts

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error, which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Keats

quotes by Carl Jung

Accept it

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Conflict

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Where We Look

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

making the darkness conscious

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Nature of a symbol

There are, and always have been, those who cannot help but see that the world and its experiences are in the nature of a symbol, and that it reflects something that lies hidden in the subject himself.

What consciousness really is

If one reflects upon what consciousness really is, one is deeply impressed by the fact that an event which occurs within the cosmos produces simultaneously an inner image, thus it also speaks within: in other words, it becomes conscious.

Vital Elements

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.