Marie-Louise Von Franz Quotes
If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.
It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.
Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.