Carl Jung Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

  Carl Jung

  Eye, Reality, Synchronicity

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Knowledge, Parenting

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Hippie, Thoughtful, Flirting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

• If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Reality, Men

• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

• People cannot stand too much Reality.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, People, Too Much

• The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Psychics, Intuition

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Fear, Adventure

• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Reality, Noise

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• 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

  Real, Psychics, World

• In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.

  Carl Jung

  Memories, Reality, People

• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Reality, Illumination

• 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

  Dream, Reality, Yield

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

• To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Critical, Left

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.218, Psychology Press

• It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.110, Princeton University Press

• One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Thinking, Littles

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

• 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

  Jesus, Reality, Order

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Evil, Half

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

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