Carl Jung Quotes - Page 13

• Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

  Carl Jung

  Structure, Accord, Happens

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

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• Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

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  Men, Friendly, Taste

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Silence, Sound

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• You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

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  Soul, Needs, Slave

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• Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

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  Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

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  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

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  Past, Possibility, Given

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

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  Men, Thinking, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

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  Creative, Creative Power

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

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• But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

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  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

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  Running, Spiritual, Men

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

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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

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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.

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  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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• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

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  Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

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  Flower, Plant, Produce

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.82, Dell

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• A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

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  Dream, Understood, Remains

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

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  Summer, Thinking, Civilization

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

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  Real, Believe, Safety

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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  Love, Happiness, Passion

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

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• What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

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  Integrity, Fate, Spirituality

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• Called or not, God is always there.

  Carl Jung

  God

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• The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

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  Mind, Mammals, Acorns

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell

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• I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Europe, Shapes

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