How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image