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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 11

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But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Art, People, Life Is

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Men, Great Men, St Thomas

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Inspiring, Inspiration, Emotional

"Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1938.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

Real, Men, Understanding

"Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Inferiority, Reason, Inferiority Complex

Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

Men, Europe, Shapes

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

Moving, Our World, Awakening

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Darkness, Wish, Enlightenment

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Dream, Doors, Profound

"The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1931.

Called or not, God is always there.

God

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Soul, Suffering, Neurosis

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

Light, Psychics, Imperfection

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Want, Might, Matter

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Inspiration, Listening, Essentials

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Punishment, Understanding, Process Of Change

Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Doe, Individual, Myth

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Ignorance, Men, Numbers

Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Self

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

Two, Mind, Different

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Happiness, Sad, Happy

"The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Leadership, Pride, Average

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