Carl Jung Quotes - Page 22

• An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

  Carl Jung

  Firsts, Metaphor

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.157, Princeton University Press

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• While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Health, Ego

  "Alchemical studies".

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• The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Doors

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933)

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Eye, Light

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• Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

  Carl Jung

  Pieces, Might, Emotion

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

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• In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Consciousness, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.272, Princeton University Press

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• In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Years, Religion

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

  Carl Jung

  Order, Broken, Psychology

  "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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• The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

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  Lying, Purpose, Serious

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• Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

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  Rivers, Water Of Life, May

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• One cannot live without inconsistency.

  Carl Jung

  Inconsistency

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• For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Men, Alchemist

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham (1970). “Psychology and alchemy”, Bollingen

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• That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Meditation, Consciousness

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• I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

  Carl Jung

  Foundation, Born, Existence

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

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• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Disappear, Intensity

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

  Carl Jung

  Environmental, World, Machines

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

  Carl Jung

  Thank God

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• I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

  Carl Jung

  Three, Life Is, This Life

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

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• The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Mind, Important

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

  Carl Jung

  Tree, Meaning Of Life, World

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• In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

  Carl Jung

  Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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