Carl Jung Quotes

• 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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  Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies". Book by C.G. Jung, translated by R.F.C. Hull, 1969.

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• The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

  Carl Jung

  World, Knows, Asks

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  Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

  Carl Jung

  Way, Like You, Deceiving

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

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

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• Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Doe, Research

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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• VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

  Carl Jung

  Tombstone, Pagan

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

  Carl Jung

  Two Sides, Accepting, All Things

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• We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wish, Happened

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• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

  Carl Jung

  Normal, Unsuccessful, Aim

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• The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Shadow, Brighter

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Depth, Ascent, Descent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Foundation, Mindfulness

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

  Carl Jung

  Good Life, Fire, Differences

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• If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Emotion, Wonder

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Talking, Silence

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Yoga, Exercise, Order

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

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• The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Healthy

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

  Carl Jung

  Giving, Accepting, Guides

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• Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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