Carl Jung Quotes

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Doe, Research

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• The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views

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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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• 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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• 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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• Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

  Carl Jung

  Needs, Knows

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

  Carl Jung

  Normal, Unsuccessful, Aim

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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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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

  Carl Jung

  Important, Myth, Asks

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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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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

  Carl Jung

  Let It Go, Heal

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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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• To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Problem, Solutions

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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