“When we pay attention to our dreams a self-regulating tendency in the soul comes into play which counterbalances the one-sidedness of consciousness or completes it so that a kind of wholeness and a life’s optimum is achieved.” Marie-Louise von Franz, Dreams
“In the end, the only events in my life worth telling are…inner experiences, amongst which I include my dreams and visions. These form the prima materia of my scientific work. They were the fiery magma out of which the stone that had to be worked was crystallized.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“A guide standing below saw him literally step out into the air while descending a rock face. He fell on the head of his friend, who was waiting lower down, and both were dashed to pieces far below.” Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy
“Dreams prepare, announce, or warn about certain situations, often long before they actually happen. This is not necessarily a miracle or a precognition. Most crises or dangerous situations have a long incubation, only the conscious mind is not aware of it. Dreams can betray the secret.”Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life
“The unconscious is the dark being within that hears what our conscious ears do not hear, and sees what our conscious eyes do not perceive…We only become aware of this unheard hearing, this unseen seeing, when the unconscious sends us these forgotten images in dreams.” Carl Jung, ETH Zurich 1933-41
“…the dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious…The dream is specifically the utterance of the unconscious.”Carl Jung, Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” (Carl Jung, Alchemical Studies)
It is as if our consciousness were…a ship on the great sea of the unconscious.” (Carl Jung, ETH Zurich)
“It is only in modern times that the dream, this fleeting and insignificant looking product of the psyche, has met with such profound contempt. Formerly it was esteemed as a harbinger of fate, a portent and comforter, a messenger of the gods. Now we see it as the emissary of the unconscious, whose task it is to reveal the secrets that are hidden from the conscious mind, and this it does with astounding completeness.”
Carl Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
