Of all his insights, the complex is perhaps the most practical of his gifts.

Part of why we get stuck is that there is a complex blocking our will, our intentionality, at least as strong as our hope for moving forward. Sometimes resolution, intentionality, willfulness, or concerted, sustained effort is enough to get unstuck, and we get through the blockage.

things of that sort. They're not actually alive in us, but they're rooted there all the same, and we can't rid ourselves of them. I've only to pick up a newspaper, and when I read it I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. I should think there must be ghosts all over the country—as countless as grains

finally, are within us.

All relationships, all relationships, involve two elemental psychological mechanisms at all times: projection and transference.

An unconscious present is a story which will insist on being told and will spill into our biographies.

Jung argued that neurosis is inauthentic suffering,

We can be possessed not only by “spirits” but by contagious ideas, fads, fashions, and fears compelling enough to launch persecutions, pogroms, and mass enthusiasms.

[Are we] related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of [one's] life . . . If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted