Carl Jung
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.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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.
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.
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.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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.
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.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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.
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.
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.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.Collection: Inspirational
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Collection: Dream
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.Collection: World
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.Collection: Way
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.Collection: Humor
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.Collection: Tombstone
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.Collection: Inspirational
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.Collection: Inspirational
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.Collection: Inspirational
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.Collection: Suffering
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fireCollection: Good Life
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.Collection: Gratitude
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.Collection: Positive
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.Collection: Needs
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.Collection: Healing
We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.Collection: Heal
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Children
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.Collection: Light
We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.Collection: Let It Go
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.Collection: Believe
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.Collection: Half
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.Collection: Powerful
Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.Collection: Imagination
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.Collection: Intelligent