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3/15/11

CARL GUSTAV JUNG Quotes


"A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way, and is, in addition, fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour." ~Carl Jung

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." ~Carl Jung 

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." ~Carl Jung 

"An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it." ~Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961)

"Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth." ~Carl Jung 

"As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself." ~Carl G. Jung

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." ~Carl Jung

"Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings." ~Carl Gustav Jung 

"But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself." ~Carl Jung

"Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you." ~Carl Jung

"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Gustav Jung

“Eros is an interweaving; logos is the capacity for differentiation, clarifying light; eros is relatedness; logos is discrimination and detachment.” ~C. G. Jung, The Secret of the Golden Flower, p. 117

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."~
Carl Jung

"Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them." ~Carl Jung 

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"He who fears death has already lost the life he covets." ~Carl Jung 

"He who looks outside dreams. He who looks within, awakens." ~Carl Jung

"Healing only comes from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own." ~Carl Jung 

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches the nearest God who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." ~Carl Jung 

"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely." ~Carl Jung

"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude." ~Carl Jung

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably be on someone else's." ~Carl Jung 

"If you are ruled by mind, you are a king; if by body, a slave." ~Carl Jung 

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." ~Carl Jung

"It is quite possible that we look at the world from the wrong side and that we might find the right answer by changing our point of view and looking at it from the other side, that is, not from outside, but from inside." ~Carl Jung

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” ~Carl Jung

"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."  -Carl Jung 

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” ~Carl Jung

"Man cannot stand a meaningless life." ~Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875-June 6, 1961)

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics." ~Carl Jung on History

"Nature is not matter only. She is also spirit." ~Carl Jung 

"Neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering" ~Carl Jung

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” -C.G. Jung

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble." ~Carl Jung

"Nothing has a stronger influence ... on children than the unlived life of the parent." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved." ~Carl Jung

"Psychological type is nothing static — it changes in the course of life." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Some persons, in their pursuit  of the Self, will overaestheticize the God or Self experience, some will undervalue it, some will overvalue it, and some who are not ready for it will be injured by it. But still others will find their way to what is called "the moral obligation" to live out and to express what one has learned in the descent or ascent to the Wild Self." ~Carl Jung, The Transcendent Function

"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see." ~Carl Jung

"The artist is not a person endowed with free will, who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realise its purposes through him. As a human being, he may have moods, and a will, and personal aims, but as an artist, he is 'man' in a higher sense. He is 'collective man', a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." ~Carl Jung

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." ~Carl Jung

"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire" ~Carl Jung

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it." ~Carl Jung

“The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.” ~Carl Jung, “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man”

"The greatest sin is to remain UNCONSCIOUS, which means not coming to know your distinctive mark, not making decisions that are death-dealing to the ego, and not taking responsibility for the laborious, painful vocation of becoming CONSCIOUS." ~Carl Jung

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." ~Carl Jung

"The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?" ~Carl Jung 

“The increasing dependence on the State is anything but a healthy symptom, it means that the whole nation is in a fair way to becoming a herd of sheep, constantly relying on a shepherd to drive them into good pastures. The shepherd’s staff soon becomes a rod of iron, and the shepherds turn into wolves. . .” ~Carl G. Jung “Civilisation in Transition”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~C.G. Jung

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~Carl Jung

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~Carl Jung

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. And be content with that.” ~Carl Jung

"The psychology of the individual is reflected in the psychology of the nation. What the nation does is done also by each individual, and so long as the individual continues to do it, the nation will do likewise. Only a change in the attitude of the individual can initiate a change in the psychology of the nation." ~Carl Jung

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." ~Carl Gustav Jung

“…the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” ~Carl Gustav Jung

"The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom.” ~Carl Jung

"The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, who infuses into the body the poison of weakness and age through the treacherous bite of the serpent; he is the spirit of regression, who threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious. For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o'-the-wisps.” ~C. G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation

"The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden, happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his wanderings among the mazes of his psychic transformation, comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles him to his apparent loneliness. In communing with himself he finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner; more than that, a relationship that seems like the happiness of a secret love, or like a hidden spring-time, when the green seed sprouts from the barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests." ~Carl Gustav Jung, (Vol 14, par. 623)

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." ~Carl Gustav Jung 

 "The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself." ~Carl Jung 

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Jung

"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge." ~C.G. Jung

"This may not all be true, but it is my story." ~Carl Jung

"To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful." ~Carl Jung

"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is." ~C.G. Jung

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." ~Carl Jung

"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only danger that exists is man himself — he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man — far too little." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Therein lies the key to your earthly pursuits." ~Carl Jung

"What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived." ~Carl Jung

"When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?" ~Carl Jung

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." ~Carl Jung

"Where your fear is, there your task is." ~Carl Jung 

"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books." ~C.G Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Jung

Extracts from Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Carl Gustave Jung:

"The genesis of this book to some extent determined its contents. Conversation or spontaneous narration is inevitably casual, and the tone has carried over the entire ‘autobiography.’ The chapters are rapidly moving beams of light that only fleetingly illuminate the outward events of Jung’s life and work. In recompense, they transmit the atmosphere of his intellectual world and the experience of a man to whom the psyche was a profound reality.” ~Aniela Jaffe, Introduction to CGJ Memories, Dreams and Reflections (1961)

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. And be content with that.” ~Carl Jung

"Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a daemonization of man and his world. The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals. Like them, he has fallen a victim to unconsciousness. But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.” ~CGJ

"The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ or Allah or what ever you call God, all these are undoubtedly Great Virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto God. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself, that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved what then?  ~ Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge." ~Carl G Jung 

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." ~Carl Jung 

"Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." ~Carl Jung

"We cannot change anything until we accept it." ~Carl Gustav Jung

 "We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them." ~Carl Jung 

"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them.  Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts.  Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principals.  As we are, so will be our ultimate truth." ~Carl Jung

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.” ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." ~Carl Jung, 1875-1961

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do." ~Carl Jung 

"Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Gustav Jung

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