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Life Quotes by Carl Jung

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Carl Jung describes life as a brief pause between two mysteries that together form a whole. He says we are called for completeness, not perfection, and that the spirit and body are two sides of the same living thing. He also stresses that a symbolic life gives meaning beyond ordinary routines.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

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Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

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Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

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No concept is a carrier of life.

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What we lack is intensity of life.

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The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

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Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

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Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

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Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

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My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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

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The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

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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…

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Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

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The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as…

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In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral…

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The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,…

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Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened…

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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of…

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Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At…

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I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist…

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Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from…

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With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the…

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Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives…

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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has…

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Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since…

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Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine…

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I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand…

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Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of…

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The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors…

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“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing ... He must obey his own law,…

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“Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.”

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The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

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Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

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“‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

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The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

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

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The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

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No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him…

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living…

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.