Carl Jung Quotes - Page 14

• To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Shadow, Shows

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• Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Progress, Important

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and psychoanalysis”

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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  Book, Thoughtful, Blood

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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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.

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  Art, Purpose, Realizing

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

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  Fate, Destiny, Detours

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Expression, Psychological

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

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  Unique, World, Individual

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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.

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  Space, Doe, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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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.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

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  Beautiful, Christian, Responsibility

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

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  Inspirational, Crowds, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.10, Routledge

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• Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

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  Healing, Depth, Height

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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

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  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

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  Home, Animal, Men

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• I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. 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. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.

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  Taken, Self, Expression

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• Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

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  Men, Feminine, Animus

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• Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

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  Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

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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

  Dark, Opposites, Unions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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• Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

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  Clients, Therapy

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• Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

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  Light, Creative, Steps

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

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  Past, Possibility, Given

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• The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Artist, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, Routledge

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

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  Brain, Hundred, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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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 greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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