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

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

Carl Jung
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”

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Carl Jung
Ego, Dull, Facts
Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Carl Jung
Real, Ego, Evolution

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Carl Jung
Letting Go, Ego, Midlife

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

Carl Jung
Sky, Ego, Earth
Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

Carl Jung
Healing, Health, Ego
"Alchemical studies".

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.

Carl Jung
Self, Psychology, Ego

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.

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

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Carl Jung
Personality, Effort, Ego
Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self”

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