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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 5

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I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Karma, Children, Fate

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

Meaningful, Connections, World

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Tired, Needs, Goes On

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love, Inspirational, Life

šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

Live Life, Spirit, Moments

Carl Gustav Jung, Claire Douglas (1997). “Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung”, p.760, Princeton University Press

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Dream, Vision, Age

Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.133, Dell

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

Doctors, Physicians, Heal

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

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

Sex, Brain, Glands

Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917). “Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology”

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

Learning, Past, Drawing

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

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Military, Greatest Fear, Causes

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Fear, Growth, Next

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

Enemy, Needs

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Light, Darkness, Mind

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Inspirational, Life, Men

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Self, Ego, Defeat

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1974). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy”

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

Simple, Next Steps, Doe

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Dream, Doe, Parables

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

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Famous Inspirational, Deeds, Who We Are

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

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

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Book, Tree, Sometimes

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Limits, Consciousness, Memories Dreams Reflections

"Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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