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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 6

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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Light, Self, Personality

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

People, World, Assuming

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

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Men, Infinite, Related

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

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

Mean, Events, Doe

Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.25, Psychology Press

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

Art, Collectives, Unconsciousness

Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Life, Men, Tragedy

Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

Dawn is born at midnight.

Dawn, Midnight, Born

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Intellect, Totality

Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.119, Psychology Press

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Inspirational, Men, Reason

Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Symbols of transformation: an analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia”

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Life And Love, Inspiration, Health

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

Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.

Healing, Remember, Please

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Men, Good Man, Whole

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Mankind, Unconscious, Unwritten

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

Ideas, Perception, Intuition

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Creativity, Play, Imagination

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

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

Relationship, Men, Psychics

"Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 185, 1928.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Passion, World, Tone

Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

Running, Broken, Psychology

Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Symbols of transformation: an analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia”

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Goes On, Able, Sometimes

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

Heart, Warrior, Shadow Work

Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

Twelve, Experts, Rooms

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