Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the… — 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
“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“In the interview, he gave an example of a man who falls head over heels in love, then later in life regrets… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — 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
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — 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
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
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