“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone… — 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
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. — 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
The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — 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 seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them… — 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
![“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
