28 Quotes by Marie-Louise von Franz

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

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.

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

It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.

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

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.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

It is as if something somewhere were ‘known’ in the form of images – but not by us.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a ‘cosmic’ or ‘greater’ meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.