Carl Jung Quotes
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
