Carl Jung Quotes

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.

My brain is a pretty intense, wacky place, and that's kind of where Miranda lives. But that's why I like the rest of my life and my stuff to be more clean, white, and simple without a lot of clutter.

I always say that at some times you can lose perspective.

I have learned in boxing to separate emotion from your job and the time in the ring. When it comes to anything that causes an emotional trigger I try to clear my head.

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.