"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”
"For the darkness has its own peculiar intellect and its own logic, which should be taken very seriously. Only the ‘light which the darkness comprehendeth not’ can illuminate the darkness. Everything that the darkness thinks, grasps, and comprehends by itself is dark; therefore it is illuminated only by what, to it, is unexpected, unwanted, and incomprehensible."
"It is only quite recently that it has been discovered that the real danger is man himself. He is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied — because we are the origin of all coming evil. Thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree means a man's life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom, and no mountain harbors a great demon. His immediate communication with nature is gone forever, and the few remnants of his primitive awareness have sunk into the unconscious. This enormous loss is compensated by the symbols that appear in dreams and in the visions of artists and seers. It is the task of the psychologist to understand these symbols, and to try to bring man back into accord with the hidden forces of his soul.”"
Vlado Šolc
