Carl Jung Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Roots, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

  Carl Jung

  World, Accumulation, Dangerous

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

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• The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Example, Way

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• If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

  Carl Jung

  Lonely, Men, Knows

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

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• Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

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• Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

  Carl Jung

  Two Sides, Accepting, All Things

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• God enters through the wound.

  Carl Jung

  Grace, Endurance, Wounds

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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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• Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Feelings, Intuition

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• You always become the thing you fight the most.

  Carl Jung

  Fighting

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Energy

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• We discover ourselves through others.

  Carl Jung

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• One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

  Carl Jung

  Destiny, Path

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• Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

  Carl Jung

  Perfection, Completeness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

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• In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Personality, Adults

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