"Everything about other people that doesn't satisfy us helps us to better understand ourselves."
Carl Jung Quote
"If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back."
"Don't hold on to someone who's leaving, otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming."
"The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself."
"Man cannot stand a meaningless life."
"I don't allow myself to believe things."
"One of the main functions of organised religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God."
"No tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down into Hell."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living."
Carl Jung Testimonial
"Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one’s own being."
"One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakes."
"The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols."
"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see."
"It just so happens that modern man is battered by the mental forces of his own psyche."
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
"There’s no coming to consciousness without pain."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."
"Man does not possess an idea. An idea possesses a man."
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
"Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
"Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul."
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"What you resist, persists."
"A dream is a small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens up to that primeval cosmic night that was the soul, long before there was the conscious ego."
"We may think that we fully control ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that we have absolutely no idea about."