Carl Jung Quotes - Page 19

• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

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  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

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  Light, Understanding, Darkness

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

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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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  Creativity, Men, Imagination

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

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• Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

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  Practice, Self, Important

  "The Secret Of The Golden Flower". Book by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung, archive.org. 1931.

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• Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

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  Meaningful, Space, Independence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• ...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

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  Nymphs, Greek, Insane

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• The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.

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  Years, Important, Details

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• It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

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  Self, Two, Special

  "Psychology and religion: West and East".

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

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  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

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  Psychics, Finals, Judgment

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

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• 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.

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  Self, Psychology, Ego

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

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

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  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

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  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

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  Animal, Men, Tree

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

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• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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  Beautiful, Disappointment, Hair

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• The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

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  Sex, Brain, Glands

  Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917). “Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology”

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• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

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  Loss, Men, Emotional

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• Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

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  Brave, Shadow, Enough

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• The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

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  Astrology, Facts, Coincidence

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• I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

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  Adventure, Thinking, People

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• Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

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  Unique, World, Individual

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• The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

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  Light, Consciousness, Longing

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• To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

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  Dream, Nature, Deceiving

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

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• One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

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  Yoke, Oneself

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

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  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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