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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 14

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Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Men, Miserable, Lost

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

Animal, Alive

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

Attitude, Real, Men

"Memories, dreams, reflections".

The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

Men, Light, Order

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “Collected Works: Psychology and religion: West and East”

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Hiking, Hands, Progress

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Art, Purpose, Realizing

I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

Real, Believe, Safety

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Self, Individuation, Wrapping

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

Circles, Resistance, Sun

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

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

Men, Thinking, Historical

Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Dream, Actors, Creation

"General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Long, Blight, Antichrist

Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

Unique, World, Individual

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

Past, Possibility, Given

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Achievement, Growth, Mind

"Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 340, 1928.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Real, Ego, Evolution

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Children, Men, Psychics

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.190, Psychology Press

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

Real, Dark, Shadow Work

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

Secret, Too Much, Conscious

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Light, Creative, Steps

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”

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