The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad… — 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
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is… — 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