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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Life Mistakes Psychology Truth

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Life Psychology

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Inspirational Psychology Spiritual

The gods have become our diseases.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Disease God Myth

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Believer Despair Faith Jung Psychology

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Greif Inspiration

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Religion Religion Meaning Spirituality

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Adulthood Jung Psychology Religion

Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough.This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rational intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams Religion Unconsciousnes

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

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Antiquity Astrology Knowledge Psychology

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Chemistry Relationships

But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really final truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Psychology Spirituality Science

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

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Fear Growth

Where your fear is,there is your task.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams Fear Personal Growth

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams Mythology

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Analysis Archetype Children Dreams Psychology Symbolism Symbols

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams From Memories Reflections

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

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams God S Grace

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Dreams Psychology

I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Aliens Dreams Meditation Psychology Symbolism Ufos Yoga

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Consequences Deeds Soul Thought Wrong

My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. Do you still know me? How long the separation lasted! Everything has become so different. And how did I find you? How strange my journey was! What words should I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Soul

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Psychology Soul

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The creative urge lives and grows in him like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Art Artist Artists Creative Process Psychology

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Art Creative Process Psychology

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Intelligence Morality Psychology Reason

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung History Individual World

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way, he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic, warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Future History Hitler Islam Prophet

We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and modern. This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Ancient Wisdom Consciousness History Humanity Psychology Unconscious

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly. from the video Carl Jung speaks about death

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Jung Nature Thinking

It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me – I am only a channel – I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you.For instance, if life had led you to take up an artificial attitude, then you wouldn't be able to stand me, because I ama natural being.By my very presence I crystallize; I am a ferment.The unconscious of people who live in an artificial manner senses me as a danger.Everything about me irritates them, my way of speaking, my way of laughing.They sense nature.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Being Nature Personality

It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me – I am only a channel – I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you.For instance, if life had led you to take up an artificial attitude, then you wouldn't be able to stand me, because I am a natural being.By my very presence I crystallize; I am a ferment.The unconscious of people who live in an artificial manner senses me as a danger.Everything about me irritates them, my way of speaking, my way of laughing.They sense nature.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Being Essence Nature Personality Self

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Consciousness Pain

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Conscious Duality Energy Mind Opposites Polarity Psychology Unconscious

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Anthropology Humanity Individualism Knowledge Non Duality Philosophy Psychology Society Statistics Wholeness

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Collective Consciousness Consciousness Duality Individualism Philosophy Polarity Psyche Psychology Society Splitting Subconscious The Self Unconscious

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Anarchy Freedom Individualism Philosophy Politics Psychology Services Society State The Self Welfare

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

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Addiction Psyche Psychology

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.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Childhood Psychology

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Connection Psychology
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