Self Quotes by Carl Jung

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

— Carl Jung

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

— Carl Jung

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

— Carl Jung

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

— Carl Jung

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

— Carl Jung

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

— Carl Jung

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal…

— Carl Jung

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is…

— Carl Jung

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

— Carl Jung

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they…

— Carl Jung

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as…

— Carl Jung

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious…

— Carl Jung

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal…

— Carl Jung

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre…

— Carl Jung

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and…

— Carl Jung

I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point…

— Carl Jung

The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular…

— Carl Jung

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in…

— Carl Jung

My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious…

— Carl Jung

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.…

— Carl Jung

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in…

— Carl Jung

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad…

— Carl Jung

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable…

— Carl Jung

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether…

— Carl Jung

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands…

— Carl Jung

It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called…

— Carl Jung

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest…

— Carl Jung

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The…

— Carl Jung

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether…

— Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

— Carl Jung

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated…

— Carl Jung

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need…

— Carl Jung

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain."…

— Carl Jung

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality…

— Carl Jung

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every…

— Carl Jung

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an…

— Carl Jung

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and…

— Carl Jung