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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 20

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The term self seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

Self, Psychology, Ego

There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

Loss, Men, Emotional

The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.

Men, Self, Psychics

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Religious, Years, Religion

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Morning, Afternoon, Human Life

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.112, Psychology Press

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

Yoke, Oneself

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

Dream, Psychics, Balance

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Shadow, World, Faces

One cannot live without inconsistency.

Inconsistency

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Fall, Unity, Pieces

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.186, North Atlantic Books

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

Art, Men, Essentials

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.172, Psychology Press

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Thoughtful, House, Mind

"Beyond the Visible: Uniting Science and Religion". Book by Issa Gammoh, p. 23, February 13, 2014.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Simplicity, Development, Fantasy

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Psychology, Terror, Refuge

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

Dark, Understanding, World

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.231, Psychology Press

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Taken, Collective Unconscious, Astrology

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 principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Suffering, Principles, Faces

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

Art, Eye, Light

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

Half, Judgment, Intellect

"Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

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

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

Psychics, Community, Secret

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

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

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

Running, Dark, Differences

Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

Religious, Lying, Answers

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

Spiritual, Impact, People

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