Carl Jung Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Light

• 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

  Dream, Father, Thinking

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Vision, Age

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.133, Dell

• 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

  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Doors

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

• Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Facts

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

• 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

  Dream, Way, Speak

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

• A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Understood, Remains

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Mind, Important

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

• 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

  Dream, Noise, Consciousness

• Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Dream, Attitude

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

• 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

  Dream, Psychics, Balance

• The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Doors, Profound

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1931.

• Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Forgotten

• Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

• 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

  Dream, Twilight, Doors

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

• 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

  Dream, Views, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

• To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Nature, Deceiving

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

• The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Inward, Looks

• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Dirty, Sea

• 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

  Dream, Individual, Interpretation

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