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Experience Quotes by Carl Jung
- Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first…
- The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
- As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with…
- One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
- Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and…
- Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has…
- The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a…
- The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or…
- The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
- I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that…
- The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',…
- A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
- Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. .…
- The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to…
- No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him…
- In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It is a moment…
- The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
- The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have…
- Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
- Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we…
- It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out…
- In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
- Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we…
- The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to…
- We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
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- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila