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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Infinite, Related

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

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• Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  Carl Jung

  Marriage, Pain, Doe

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 193, 1928.

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Thinking, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

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• We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Vision, Age

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.133, Dell

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• The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Judgment, Intellect

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

  Alex Flinn

  Shoes, Psychology, Individuality

  Alex Flinn (2011). “Cloaked”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• 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 compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

  Carl Jung

  Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Mind, Doe

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. Paragraph 51, p. 46, 1952.

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• If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, People, Rooms

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Hippie, Thoughtful, Flirting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Understanding, Limits

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Light

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• I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

  Carl Jung

  Stupid, Numbers, Mind

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings".

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• Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Dream, Attitude

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

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• Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

  Carl Jung

  Letting Go, Ego, Midlife

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Lazy, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fear, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.169, North Atlantic Books

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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