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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Neurosis, Natural

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• Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fall, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Hatred, Quality

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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• The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Sin, Unconscious

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• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

  Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

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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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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. 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.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, People, Evil

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Sides, Whole

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• Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

  Carl Jung

  Violence, Terror

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Midnight, Born

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• Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Human Life, Fulfilled

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• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Forgotten Things, Finding Yourself

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Depth, Ascent, Descent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

  Carl Jung

  Fashion, Voice, Doe

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• You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

  Carl Jung

  Live Life, Spirit, Moments

  Carl Gustav Jung, Claire Douglas (1997). “Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung”, p.760, Princeton University Press

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• Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Enchantment, Form

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

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• The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate

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