"mandala means 'circle.' they are all based on the squaring of a circle.
Their basic motif is the premonition of a centre of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy.
The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost irresistible compulsion and urge to become what one is.
This centre is not felt or thought of as the ego but as the self."
some spontaneous mandalas drawn by Jung's patients during therapy. none of them had any previous knowledge of mandalas as such.
his therapy patients produced multitudes of these mandala images.
"We call the unconscious "nothing," and yet it is a reality in potentia.
The thought we shall think, the deed we shall do, even the fate we shall lament tomorrow, all lie unconscious in our today.
The unknown in us which the affect uncovers was always there and sooner or later would have presented itself to consciousness.
Hence we must always reckon possibilities of future development, perhaps in just such an outburst of affect which sometimes radically alters the whole situation."
