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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 2

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world -

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

Yoga, Exercise, Order

"Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

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.

Gratitude, Emotion, Wonder

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

Inspirational, Letting Go, Healthy

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

Heal, Wounded

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

Children, Personality, Adults

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Normal, Unsuccessful, Aim

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

Light, Shadow, Brighter

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Lonely, Men, Knows

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

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Real, Feelings, Painful

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.335, Princeton University Press

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Friendship, Relationship, Positive

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Half, Problem, Solutions

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.23, Princeton University Press

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Inspirational, Wise, Dream

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Healing, Talking, Silence

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

Light, Order, Darkness

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

Jesus, Example, Way

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Fighting

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Doubt, Repressed, Fanaticism

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Perfection, Completeness

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

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Add, Problem, Capacity

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Hands, Goal, Purpose

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Eye, Reality, Synchronicity

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Love, Risk, Mood

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