Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such… — 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
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — 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
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
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — 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
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas… — 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
