48 Quotes About Anima

The man with the persona is blind to the existence of inner realities, just as the other [man without a persona] is blind to the reality of the world, which for him has merely the value of an amusing or fantastic playground.

Just imagine that you have a soulmate, destined numerically to pair with you! You just have to find the person who has your number. Who is the 284 to your 220?

Gli umani sono soli. Malgrado la pioggia, malgrado gli animali, malgrado i fiumi e gli alberi e il cielo e malgrado il fuoco. Gli umani sono sempre sulla soglia. Hanno avuto il dono della verticalità, e tuttavia conducono la loro esistenza curvi sotto un peso invisibile.

Jungians have found that in every man there is a feminine sub-personality called the Anima, made up of the feminine archetypes. And in every woman there is a masculine sub-personality called the Animus, made up of the masculine archetypes.

The shadow can be realized only through a relation to a partner, and anima and animus only through a relation to a partner of the opposite sex, because only in such a relation do their projections become operative.

A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voiceLike dew, like a bonfireThe voice of insectsthe sound of the water You can never lose themonce you've heard them...

When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.

Il ragazzo sospirò amareggiato: mai ci fu autore più mal interpretato. Il più grande poeta del suo tempo aveva usato simboli talmente profondi da riuscire, senza saperlo né volerlo, a scavare fin sul fondo nell’anima, liberando oscuri demoni dalle loro catene di tenebra.

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.