Consciousness Quotes by Carl Jung

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

— Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

— Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

— Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

— Carl Jung

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

— Carl Jung

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

— Carl Jung

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

— Carl Jung

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

— Carl Jung

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether…

— Carl Jung

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear…

— Carl Jung

The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

— Carl Jung

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

— Carl Jung

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

— Carl Jung

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of…

— Carl Jung

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to…

— Carl Jung

Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us…

— Carl Jung

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,…

— Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their…

— Carl Jung

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,…

— Carl Jung

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.…

— Carl Jung

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead…

— Carl Jung

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear…

— Carl Jung

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands…

— Carl Jung

Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an…

— Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only…

— Carl Jung

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a…

— Carl Jung

“There are no problems without consciousness. ..., in what way does consciousness arise? Nobody can say with certainty; but we can observe…

— Carl Jung

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In…

— Carl Jung

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The…

— Carl Jung

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of…

— Carl Jung

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness…

— Carl Jung

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

— Carl Jung

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by…

— Carl Jung

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

— Carl Jung

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into…

— Carl Jung

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and…

— Carl Jung

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,…

— Carl Jung

The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane…

— Carl Jung