Dreams

The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my actions and my decisions as dependent on dreams. Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight. The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth. Scholarliness belongs to the spirit of this time, but this spirit in no way grasps the dream, since the soul is everywhere that scholarly knowledge is not.

—Jung, 2009, p. 233

Found in:
Animals and Analysis: The Grimm’s Tale “The Three Languages”
Thomas Elsner
Psychological Perspectives, 53: 313–334, 2010