"What the West has tolerated, but secretly and with a slight sense of shame (the diplomatic lie, systematic deception, veiled threats), comes back into the open and in full measure from the East and ties us up in neurotic knots. It is the face of this own evil shadow that grins at Western man from th"
"If we could see our shadow (the dark side of our nature), we should be immune to any moral and mental infection and insinuation. As matters now stand, we lay ourselves open to every infection, because we are really doing practically the same thing as they."
"The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our superior judgement will make it disappear). It is the time-hallowed archetypal dream of a Golden Age (or Paradise), where everything is provided in abundance for everyone, and a great, just, "
"But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it. ... The grew up from the dark depth of the mind like a lotus and form a most important part of the subliminal psyche."
"These changes can be accelerated if the dreamer's conscious attitude is influenced by appropriate interpretation of the dreams and their symbolic contents."
"... the realization of this uniquesness in the individual man is the goal of the process of individuation."
"The carpenter obviously understood his dream. He saw that simply to fulfill one's destiny is the greatest human achievement, and that our utilitarian notions have to give way in the face of the demands of our unconscious psyche."
"There is only one thing that seems to work; and that is to turn directly toward the approaching darkness without prejudice and totally naively, and to try to find out what its secret aim is and what it wants from you."