An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. — 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
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire… — 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
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — 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