Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the…

— James Hollis

“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism.…

— Grant H. Kester

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews,…

— Anonymous

“Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.”

— Bryant McGill

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously…

— Abraham Maslow

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace.…

— Carl Jung

“To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to put off…

— Joseph Campbell

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was…

— Carl Jung

I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely,…

— Carl Jung

“Jung came to understand that in this regard, we are all fragmented, and that the work of individuation is to fuse our disparate parts…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious…

— Sera J. Beak

“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed…

— James Hollis

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

— Thomas Aquinas

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of…

— Edward Abbey