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Consciousness Quotes by Carl Jung

54 Consciousness quotes by Carl Jung

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Carl Jung writes that the only God a person meets is his own consciousness, a blend of spirit, soul, and mind. He describes the unconscious as a spiral that slowly draws us toward a central truth, carrying inherited patterns from ancestors. He also warns that an inflated, egocentric consciousness blocks learning and growth.

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The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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

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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

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

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Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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.