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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 22

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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Tragedy, Body, Want

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Music, Reality, Noise

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

Angel, Half, Conflict

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Islamic, Drunk, Germany

Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Mean, Special, Energy

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

Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

Meaningful, Space, Independence

Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Animal, Vivisection, Medical

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

Children, Character, Childhood

"The Theory of Psychoanalysis". Book by Carl Jung, 1915.

The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

Stars, Real, Taken

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

Men, Earthquakes, Soul

Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

Dream, Mind, Important

Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.9, Courier Corporation

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

Fall, Men, Collective Unconscious

"Jung on Christianity".

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Believe, Needs, Belief

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Self, Psychology, Ego

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

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Use, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Men, Mind, Blind

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

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Taken, Science, Perfect

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Spiritual, People, Function

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Life, Failure, Responsibility

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

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

Astrology, Facts, Coincidence

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Heart, Roots, Secret Love

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

Dream, Attitude, Light

The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

Dream, Views, Circles

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

Dream, Hands, Long

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