Carl Jung Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”
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“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 JungSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
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“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
-- Carl JungSource : Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
-- Carl JungSource : Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc
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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
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“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
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“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”
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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
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“There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.”
-- Carl JungSource : William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”
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“How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.”
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“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
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“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.”
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“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.”
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
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“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.”
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“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.”
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“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
-- Carl Jung
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