Carl Jung Quotes - Page 12

• Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

  Carl Jung

  Age, Losing, Forgotten

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.98, North Atlantic Books

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• 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

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• The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

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  Punishment, Understanding, Process Of Change

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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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.

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  Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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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.

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  Mind, Mammals, Acorns

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell

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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

  Art, People, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

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  Self, Individuation, Wrapping

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

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  Lying, Men, Law

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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.

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  Ego, Dull, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

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  Men, Europe, Shapes

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. 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. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Conscious

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• Called or not, God is always there.

  Carl Jung

  God

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• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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  Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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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

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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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.

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  Life, Farewell, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Writing, Silence

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• When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Naked, Earth

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Forgotten

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• Nothing is possible without love.

  Carl Jung

  Without Love

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

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  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

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  Intuition, Doe, Reason

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• I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

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  Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

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  Views, Important, Stronger

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