Unc Quotations | Page 4

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.