Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung
If there is anything 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
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was
wasted.
– Carl Jung
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the
senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our
times.
– Carl Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s
course. 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.
– Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
– Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning
in the darkness of mere being.
– Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
– Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
– Carl Jung
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and
letting go of it.
– Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is
any reaction, both are transformed.
– Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
– Carl Jung
You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.
– Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung
Deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering,
“There is something not right,” no matter how much his rightness is supported by public
opinion or moral code.
– Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
– 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
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.
– Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness
conscious.
– Carl Jung
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.
– Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other
people.
– Carl Jung
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.
– Carl Jung
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
– Carl Jung
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
– Carl Jung
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world.
– Carl Jung
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with
inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,
reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they
have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
– Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
– Carl Jung
The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also
come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
– Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
– Carl Jung
What can a man say about woman, his own opposite? I mean of course something sensible, that is outside the sexual program, free of resentment, illusion, and theory. Where is the man to be found capable of such superiority? Woman always stands just where the man’s shadow falls, so that he is only too liable to confuse the two. Then, when he tries to repair this misunderstanding, he overvalues her and believes her the most desirable thing in 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
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
– Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
– 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
Shame is a soul-eating emotion.
– Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
– Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or
idealism.
– Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
– Carl Jung
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.
– Carl Jung
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
– Carl Jung
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
– Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
– Carl Jung
The true leader is always led.
– Carl Jung
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be
shattered.
– 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
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
– Carl Jung
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
– Carl Jung
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
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
– Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
– 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
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
– Carl Jung
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
– 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
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the
contraries.
– Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
– Carl Jung
I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.
– Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and
wrong.
– Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
– Carl Jung
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A
nation has no honour, it has no word to keep.
– Carl Jung
There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.
– Carl Jung