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The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life. -- Carl Jung
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But the meaning of life is not ... explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account. -- Carl Jung
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To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse. -- Carl Jung
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Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent -- Carl Jung
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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. -- Carl Jung
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There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world. -- Carl Jung
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And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand. -- Carl Jung
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. -- Carl Jung
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Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference. -- Carl Jung
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A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour. -- Carl Jung
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Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact ... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation. -- Carl Jung
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Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. 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
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The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level. -- Carl Jung
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So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct. -- Carl Jung
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The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning. -- Carl Jung
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Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. -- Carl Jung
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An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. -- Carl Jung
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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
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There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. -- Carl Jung
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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. -- Carl Jung
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. -- Carl Jung
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Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions. -- Carl Jung
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If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem. -- Carl Jung
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Magic is the science of the jungle. -- Carl Jung
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In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious -- Carl Jung
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The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. -- Carl Jung
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The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. -- Carl Jung
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. -- Carl Jung
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The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it. -- Carl Jung
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As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me ... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop. -- Carl Jung
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. -- Carl Jung
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Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. -- Carl Jung
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If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important -- Carl Jung
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. -- Carl Jung
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It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. -- Carl Jung
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. -- Carl Jung
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Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites! -- Carl Jung
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People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. -- Carl Jung
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Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts. -- Carl Jung
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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
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Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know. -- Carl Jung
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Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it. -- Carl Jung
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. -- Carl Jung
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Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant? -- Carl Jung
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The reason for such an "unreasonable" attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story. -- Carl Jung
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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 ... -- Carl Jung
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Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. -- Carl Jung
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The soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world. -- Carl Jung
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For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. -- Carl Jung
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Dawn is born at midnight. -- Carl Jung
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Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly. -- Carl Jung
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Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. -- Carl Jung
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True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide. -- Carl Jung
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The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality. -- Carl Jung
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The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. -- Carl Jung
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A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. -- Carl Jung
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. -- Carl Jung
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You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence. -- Carl Jung
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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. -- Carl Jung
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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. -- Carl Jung
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You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. -- Carl Jung
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The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth. -- Carl Jung
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? -- Carl Jung
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Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. -- Carl Jung
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Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. -- Carl Jung
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The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man. -- Carl Jung
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. -- Carl Jung
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Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. -- Carl Jung
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Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator. -- Carl Jung
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What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future. -- Carl Jung
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The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body -- Carl Jung
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Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them. -- Carl Jung
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. -- Carl Jung
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. -- Carl Jung
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness. -- Carl Jung
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The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre. -- Carl Jung
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It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox. -- Carl Jung
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If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly. -- Carl Jung
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The Jews should not have resisted Hitler ... They should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. -- Carl Jung
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Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units. -- Carl Jung
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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
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Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand. -- Carl Jung
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Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. -- Carl Jung
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Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in. -- Carl Jung
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The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. -- Carl Jung
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The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require. -- Carl Jung
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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you. -- Carl Jung
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When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth? -- Carl Jung
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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
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. -- Carl Jung
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Science ... is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. -- Carl Jung
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The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods. -- Carl Jung
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness. -- Carl Jung
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Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. -- Carl Jung
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The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. -- Carl Jung
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. -- Carl Jung
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Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. -- Carl Jung
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Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror -- Carl Jung
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There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance. -- Carl Jung
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Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil. -- Carl Jung
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Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable -- Carl Jung
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It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious psyche believes in life after death -- Carl Jung
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Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky -- Carl Jung
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The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life. -- Carl Jung
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I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference. -- Carl Jung
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Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. -- Carl Jung
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life. -- Carl Jung
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Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. -- Carl Jung
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All fanaticism is repressed doubt. -- Carl Jung
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If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new. -- Carl Jung
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Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination. -- Carl Jung
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At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things. -- Carl Jung
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A purely psychological explanation is ruled out ... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots ... -- Carl Jung
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A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. -- Carl Jung
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I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. -- Carl Jung
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Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart. -- Carl Jung
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. -- Carl Jung
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Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. -- Carl Jung
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That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny. -- Carl Jung
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We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women. -- Carl Jung
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Everyone can afford to give away a smile. -- Carl Jung
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Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest. -- Carl Jung
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. -- Carl Jung
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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
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From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex. -- Carl Jung
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. -- Carl Jung
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The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering. -- Carl Jung
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Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself -- Carl Jung
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -- Carl Jung
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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
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Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God. -- Carl Jung
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Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul -- Carl Jung
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My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day ... I guarded them like precious pearls ... It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. -- Carl Jung
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Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one. -- Carl Jung
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It is not for us ... to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture. -- Carl Jung
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The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. -- Carl Jung
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Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken. -- Carl Jung
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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
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It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. -- Carl Jung
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Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth. -- Carl Jung
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All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out. -- Carl Jung
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The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes. -- Carl Jung
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself. -- Carl Jung
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. -- Carl Jung
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung
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We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves. -- Carl Jung
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Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. -- Carl Jung
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world. -- Carl Jung
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My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. -- Carl Jung
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Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. -- Carl Jung
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Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved. -- Carl Jung
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. -- Carl Jung
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Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. -- Carl Jung
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Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices. -- Carl Jung
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That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate. -- Carl Jung
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We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist. -- Carl Jung
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. -- Carl Jung
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It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption. -- Carl Jung
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I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool. -- Carl Jung
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Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust. -- Carl Jung
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But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity. -- Carl Jung
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We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. -- Carl Jung
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I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. -- Carl Jung
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Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it. -- Carl Jung
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness. -- Carl Jung
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Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. -- Carl Jung
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The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body. -- Carl Jung
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In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. -- Carl Jung
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You always become the thing you fight the most. -- Carl Jung
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Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act. -- Carl Jung
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I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts. -- Carl Jung
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Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live. -- Carl Jung
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The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -- Carl Jung
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. -- Carl Jung
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A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self. -- Carl Jung
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Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul. -- Carl Jung
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The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. -- Carl Jung
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals. -- Carl Jung
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One cannot live without inconsistency. -- Carl Jung
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The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. -- Carl Jung
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. -- Carl Jung
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. -- Carl Jung
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Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular. -- Carl Jung
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One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it. -- Carl Jung
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My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. -- Carl Jung
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The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one. -- Carl Jung
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A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities. -- Carl Jung
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Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow. -- Carl Jung
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Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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Every victory contains the germ of future defeat. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art ... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. -- Carl Jung
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Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine. -- Carl Jung
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No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind. -- Carl Jung
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People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress. -- Carl Jung
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Man's unconscious ... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning. -- Carl Jung
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Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life. -- Carl Jung
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He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes. -- Carl Jung
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All true things must change and only that which changes remains true. -- Carl Jung
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So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate. -- Carl Jung
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -- Carl Jung
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What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived -- Carl Jung
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St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness. -- Carl Jung
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Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long. -- Carl Jung
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The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues. -- Carl Jung
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Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life. -- Carl Jung
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The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. -- Carl Jung
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If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. -- Carl Jung
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Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one. -- Carl Jung
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Even a lie is a psychic fact. -- Carl Jung
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. -- Carl Jung
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Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even -- Carl Jung
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The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. -- Carl Jung
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Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. -- Carl Jung
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Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. -- Carl Jung
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Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. -- Carl Jung
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In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man ... ' -- Carl Jung
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What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured. -- Carl Jung
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. -- Carl Jung
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Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao. -- Carl Jung
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The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. -- Carl Jung
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. -- Carl Jung
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Thank God I'm not a Jungian. -- Carl Jung
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Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." -- Carl Jung
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I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream." -- Carl Jung
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word "psychological," it always sounds to him like "only psychological. -- Carl Jung
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I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways. -- Carl Jung
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Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning. -- Carl Jung
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Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. -- Carl Jung
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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. -- Carl Jung
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The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal. -- Carl Jung
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Consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates. -- Carl Jung
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One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. -- Carl Jung
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There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things. -- Carl Jung
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Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. -- Carl Jung
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The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent. -- Carl Jung
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The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things. -- Carl Jung
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The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens. -- Carl Jung
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic. -- Carl Jung
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Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror -- Carl Jung
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To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality. -- Carl Jung
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Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit -- Carl Jung
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What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. -- Carl Jung
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It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also. -- Carl Jung
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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness -- Carl Jung
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Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. -- Carl Jung
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -- Carl Jung
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Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair. -- Carl Jung
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. -- Carl Jung
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Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. -- Carl Jung
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No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. -- Carl Jung
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The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. -- Carl Jung
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It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return ... -- Carl Jung
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When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened. -- Carl Jung
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Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides -- Carl Jung
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We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live. -- Carl Jung
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Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything. -- Carl Jung
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In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted. -- Carl Jung
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The greatest sin is to be unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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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
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The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.. -- Carl Jung
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There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. -- Carl Jung
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The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego ... -- Carl Jung
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The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. -- Carl Jung
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Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego. -- Carl Jung
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What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved
what then? -- Carl Jung
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Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. -- Carl Jung
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
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The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it. -- Carl Jung
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To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. -- Carl Jung
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The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. -- Carl Jung
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Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. -- Carl Jung
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Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries. -- Carl Jung
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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord. -- Carl Jung
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One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. -- Carl Jung
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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
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What we lack is intensity of life. -- Carl Jung
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Called or not, God is always there. -- Carl Jung
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Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche. -- Carl Jung
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Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being. -- Carl Jung
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I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished. -- Carl Jung
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Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot. -- Carl Jung
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Plato's world of ideas is beautiful. -- Carl Jung
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Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life ... -- Carl Jung
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Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. -- Carl Jung
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The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful. -- Carl Jung
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Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. -- Carl Jung
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Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy
the mass never frees itself. -- Carl Jung
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -- Carl Jung
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Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide -- Carl Jung
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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! -- Carl Jung
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. -- Carl Jung
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Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith. -- Carl Jung
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. -- Carl Jung
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All neurotics seek the religious -- Carl Jung
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The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands. -- Carl Jung
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I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni. -- Carl Jung
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When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious. -- Carl Jung
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Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself. -- Carl Jung
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. -- Carl Jung
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A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. -- Carl Jung
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Hitler is a medicine man type of leader. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all. -- Carl Jung
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary -- Carl Jung
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The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. -- Carl Jung
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. -- Carl Jung
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A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course. -- Carl Jung
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In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. -- Carl Jung
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Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day. -- Carl Jung
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We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. -- Carl Jung
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Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior. -- Carl Jung
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
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How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings? -- Carl Jung
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Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. -- Carl Jung
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Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence. -- Carl Jung
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain. -- Carl Jung
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Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation. -- Carl Jung
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Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. -- Carl Jung
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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind. -- Carl Jung
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
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I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within. -- Carl Jung
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I do not believe ... I know. -- Carl Jung
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Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about. -- Carl Jung
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Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life. -- Carl Jung
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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. -- Carl Jung
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Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time. -- Carl Jung
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Jung
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Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism. -- Carl Jung
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We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods -- Carl Jung
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Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate. -- Carl Jung
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Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day. -- Carl Jung
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You are a slave of what you need in your soul. -- Carl Jung
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Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed. -- Carl Jung
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Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer. -- Carl Jung
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The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels. -- Carl Jung
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Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. -- Carl Jung
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To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. -- Carl Jung
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Dream the dream onward. -- Carl Jung
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A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable. -- Carl Jung
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The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual ... -- Carl Jung
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We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone. -- Carl Jung
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All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness. -- Carl Jung
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In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness. -- Carl Jung
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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
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Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. -- Carl Jung
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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. -- Carl Jung
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In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes. -- Carl Jung
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Meaning makes a great many things endurable
per haps everything. -- Carl Jung
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The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite. -- Carl Jung
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. -- Carl Jung
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It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail -- Carl Jung
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Hitler's unconscious seems to be female. -- Carl Jung
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Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light. -- Carl Jung
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Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. -- Carl Jung
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The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man. -- Carl Jung
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Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world. -- Carl Jung
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Religion is a defense against the experience of God. -- Carl Jung
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Life is crazy and meaningful at once. -- Carl Jung
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The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens. -- Carl Jung
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Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. -- Carl Jung
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We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws. -- Carl Jung
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Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness. -- Carl Jung
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Without freedom there can be no morality. -- Carl Jung
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The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. -- Carl Jung
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I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. -- Carl Jung
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Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. -- Carl Jung
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All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. -- Carl Jung
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An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. -- Carl Jung
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When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology. -- Carl Jung
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No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. -- Carl Jung
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Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself. -- Carl Jung
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration? -- Carl Jung
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. -- Carl Jung
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We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. -- Carl Jung
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Nothing is possible without love. -- Carl Jung
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Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. -- Carl Jung
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. -- Carl Jung
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I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. -- Carl Jung
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To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful. -- Carl Jung
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Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought. -- Carl Jung
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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
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The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. -- Carl Jung
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The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. -- Carl Jung
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Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. -- Carl Jung
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The seat of faith ... is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. -- Carl Jung
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We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. -- Carl Jung
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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
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If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them. -- Carl Jung
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There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. -- Carl Jung
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One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it. -- Carl Jung
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The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. -- Carl Jung
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Simple things are always the most difficult. -- Carl Jung
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It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces. -- Carl Jung
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The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us -- Carl Jung
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Summoned or not, the god will come. -- Carl Jung
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. -- Carl Jung
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The sight of a child ... will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona. -- Carl Jung
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If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind. -- Carl Jung
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The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same. -- Carl Jung
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. -- Carl Jung
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I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. -- Carl Jung
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Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. -- Carl Jung
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New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. -- Carl Jung
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My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment. -- Carl Jung
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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. -- Carl Jung
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. -- Carl Jung
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. -- Carl Jung
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In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. -- Carl Jung
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One must be able to let things happen. -- Carl Jung
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When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. -- Carl Jung
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Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. -- Carl Jung
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The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual. -- Carl Jung
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The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him. -- Carl Jung
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. -- Carl Jung
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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves. -- Carl Jung
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The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. -- Carl Jung
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We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie. -- Carl Jung
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No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream. -- Carl Jung
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Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. -- Carl Jung
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. -- Carl Jung
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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature. -- Carl Jung
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Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. -- Carl Jung
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The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. -- Carl Jung
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Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you. -- Carl Jung
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Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions. -- Carl Jung
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. -- Carl Jung
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When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. -- Carl Jung
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However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. -- Carl Jung
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In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then! -- Carl Jung
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Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage. -- Carl Jung
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. -- Carl Jung
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I would rather be whole than good. -- Carl Jung
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. -- Carl Jung
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. -- Carl Jung
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Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned. -- Carl Jung
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. -- Carl Jung
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There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element. -- Carl Jung
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Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. -- Carl Jung
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep . -- Carl Jung
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One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms. -- Carl Jung
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. -- Carl Jung
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Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas -- Carl Jung
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Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. -- Carl Jung
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Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals. -- Carl Jung
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The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. -- Carl Jung
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To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. -- Carl Jung
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No concept is a carrier of life. -- Carl Jung
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For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him. -- Carl Jung
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Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients. -- Carl Jung
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Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over. -- Carl Jung
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. -- Carl Jung
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The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living? -- Carl Jung
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The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone. -- Carl Jung
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Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth -- Carl Jung
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The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. -- Carl Jung
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Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face. -- Carl Jung
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The inner man has access to the sense organs of god. -- Carl Jung
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No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. -- Carl Jung
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. -- Carl Jung
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. -- Carl Jung
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Envy does not allow humanity to sleep. -- Carl Jung
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A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead. -- Carl Jung
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Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see. -- Carl Jung
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. -- Carl Jung
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We discover ourselves through others. -- Carl Jung
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Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights. -- Carl Jung
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If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. -- Carl Jung
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Colors express the main psychic functions of man. -- Carl Jung
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But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. -- Carl Jung
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I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further. -- Carl Jung
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -- Carl Jung
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It is just man's turning away from instinct
his opposing himself to instinct
that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial. -- Carl Jung
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Invited or not, God is present. -- Carl Jung
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The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine -- Carl Jung
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I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God. -- Carl Jung
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We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go. -- Carl Jung
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We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems. -- Carl Jung
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The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition. -- Carl Jung
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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
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Modern man is sick because he is not whole. -- Carl Jung
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. -- Carl Jung
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. -- Carl Jung
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. -- Carl Jung
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. -- Carl Jung
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Only the wounded physician heals. -- Carl Jung
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Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. -- Carl Jung
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. -- Carl Jung