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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 21

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Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time,

Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

Rivers, Water Of Life, May

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

Writing, Fate, Men

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

Dark, Opposites, Unions

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

Ideas, Space, Enemy

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Errors, Age, Degrees

The sure path can only lead to death.

Path, Memories Dreams Reflections

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

Men, Friendly, Taste

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

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Sleep, Imagination, Waking

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

Thinking, Happened

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.31, Princeton University Press

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

Fate, Meditation, Consciousness

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Criticism, Harm, Built

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Shoes, Decision, Recipes

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Spring, Fate, Destiny

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

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

Psychics, Disappear, Intensity

Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

Great Men, Conscious And Unconscious

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

Land, Astrology, Worry

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

Men, Average, Voice

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

Heart, Want, Fallen

I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

Mother, Father, Men

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

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Foundation, Born, Existence

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

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Covering, Brutality, Sentimental

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

Suicide, Spiritual, Self

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

Self, Two, Special

"Psychology and religion: West and East".

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Science, Psychics, Mind

Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.600, Routledge

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