110+ Carl Jung Quotes On Soul, Learning And Dreams

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. He is well known for his concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and the process of individuation. His theories have had a major influence on modern psychology and continue to be studied and developed today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Carl Jung on love, life, soul.

Top 10 Carl Jung Quotes

1. Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.
2. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
3. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
4. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
5. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
6. If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
7. The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire
8. Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
9. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
10. Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung Image Quotes

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT. — Carl Jung

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. — Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. — Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. — Carl Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. — Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death — Carl Jung

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do. — Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Short Quotes

• VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.
• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
• To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
• The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
• Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
• All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Carl Jung Quotes About Love

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. — Carl Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. — Carl Jung

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. — Carl Jung

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. — Carl Jung

Nothing is possible without love. — Carl Jung

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. — Carl Jung

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Life

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. — Carl Jung

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. — Carl Jung

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

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. — Carl Jung

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death — Carl Jung

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted. — Carl Jung

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Soul

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. — Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. — Carl Jung

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. — Carl Jung

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time. — Carl Jung

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important — Carl Jung

Shame is a soul eating emotion. — Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Learning

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. — Carl Jung

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. — Carl Jung

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. — Carl Jung

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. — Carl Jung

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul. — Carl Jung

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods. — Carl Jung

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul — Carl Jung

We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant. — Carl Jung

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. — Carl Jung

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Dreams

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. — Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." — Carl Jung

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him. — Carl Jung

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. — Carl Jung

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic. — Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. — Carl Jung

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin. — Carl Jung

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung

The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Shadow

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. — Carl Jung

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior. — Carl Jung

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. — Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. — Carl Jung

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

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face. — Carl Jung

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. — Carl Jung

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole — Carl Jung

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. — Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung Quotes About Individuation

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation. — Carl Jung

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. — Carl Jung

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. — Carl Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. — Carl Jung

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — Carl Jung

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

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. — Carl Jung

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Fear

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

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. — Carl Jung

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. — Carl Jung

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

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Astrology

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. — Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. — Carl Jung

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. — Carl Jung

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. — Carl Jung

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious — Carl Jung

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. — Carl Jung

Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Archetypes

The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man. — Carl Jung

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. — Carl Jung

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail — Carl Jung

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites! — Carl Jung

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet. — Carl Jung

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms. — Carl Jung

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. — Carl Jung

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured. — Carl Jung

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal. — Carl Jung

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Psychological

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. — Carl Jung

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. — Carl Jung

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. — Carl Jung

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind. — Carl Jung

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. — Carl Jung

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it. — Carl Jung

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror — Carl Jung

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life. — Carl Jung

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves. — Carl Jung

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Unconscious

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth. — Carl Jung

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

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

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

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. — Carl Jung

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About People

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung

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

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives! — Carl Jung

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves. — Carl Jung

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer. — Carl Jung

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again. — Carl Jung

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. — Carl Jung

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture. — Carl Jung

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them. — Carl Jung

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quotes About Conscious

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. — Carl Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. — Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate. — Carl Jung

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities. — Carl Jung

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. — Carl Jung

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. — Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung Famous Quotes And Sayings

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. — Carl Jung

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. — Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. — Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. — Carl Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. — Carl Jung

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

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. — Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. — Carl Jung

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed. — Carl Jung

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. — Carl Jung

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death — Carl Jung

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

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do. — Carl Jung

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination. — Carl Jung

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. — Carl Jung

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. — Carl Jung

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. — Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. — Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character. — Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. — Carl Jung

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. — Carl Jung

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

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. — Carl Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. — Carl Jung

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it — Carl Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. — Carl Jung

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. — Carl Jung

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. — Carl Jung

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

The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature. — Carl Jung

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. — Carl Jung

What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. — Carl Jung

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. — Carl Jung

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. — Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. — Carl Jung

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole. — Carl Jung

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys. — Carl Jung

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then? — Carl Jung

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true. — Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. — Carl Jung

Life Lessons by Carl Jung

1. Carl Jung believed that the unconscious mind was the source of creativity and growth, and that understanding it was the key to personal development.
2. He developed the concept of the collective unconscious, which is a shared understanding of symbols and archetypes that are common to all humans.
3. He also believed that by understanding our own unconscious motivations, we can better understand our own behavior and the behavior of others.