Carl Jung Quotes

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

One must be able to let things happen.

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

We discover ourselves through others.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

What you resist persist.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

The true leader is always led.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.