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  • You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.

  • Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

  • We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

    "On Divination and Synchronicity". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, pp. 39-40, 1992.
  • The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

  • If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  • To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (1974). “Number and Time”, p.52, Northwestern University Press
  • One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  • In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.110, Shambhala Publications
  • A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

  • As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications
  • There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

  • Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

  • 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.

  • Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications
  • Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.

    "Psyche and Matter". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, p. 2016, 1992.
  • The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.

    "The Process of Individuation". "Man and His Symbols". Book by Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, part 3, p. 163, 1964.
  • My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

  • As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.

  • People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications
  • It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.

  • If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.107, Shambhala Publications
  • The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.260, Shambhala Publications
  • Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.263, Shambhala Publications
  • The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications
  • Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (1999). “Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche”, p.234, Shambhala Publications
  • Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

    Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.47, Shambhala Publications
  • Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

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    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.245, Shambhala Publications
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