C.G. Jung – Quotes
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other 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.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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.
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ — all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy 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? As a rule, the Christian’s attitude is then reversed;
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