Carl Jung Quotes - Page 21

• Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

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  Rivers, Water Of Life, May

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

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  Sleep, Imagination, Waking

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• The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

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  Psychics, Community, Secret

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

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  Art, Eye, Light

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• Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

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  Psychology, Terror, Refuge

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

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  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

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  Fate, Meditation, Consciousness

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• The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

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  Religious, Lying, Answers

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

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  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

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  Thinking, Happened

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.31, Princeton University Press

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• The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

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  Men, World, Thread

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• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

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  Psychics, Disappear, Intensity

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

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  Criticism, Harm, Built

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

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  Heart, Want, Fallen

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• Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

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  Ritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

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  Land, Astrology, Worry

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

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  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

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  Science, Psychics, Mind

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.600, Routledge

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• I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

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  Foundation, Born, Existence

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

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• In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

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  Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

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  Art, Men, Essentials

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.172, Psychology Press

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• Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

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  Meaningful, Space, Independence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

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  Art, Kind, Instruments

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

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  Suffering, Principles, Faces

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