Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the… — 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
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of… — 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
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from… — 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
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
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
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
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share
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
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share
“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
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
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