Carl Jung Quotes - Page 5

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

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  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

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  Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

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

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

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  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Men

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

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• The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, Fear, Men

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

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  Dream, Vision, Age

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

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• I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

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  Tired, Needs, Goes On

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• Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

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  Inspirational, Men, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• 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.

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  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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• That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

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  Inspirational, Fate

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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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  Health, Thoughtful, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

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  Military, Greatest Fear, Causes

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• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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  Understanding, Understood, Happens

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• Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

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  Limits, Consciousness, Memories Dreams Reflections

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

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  Heart, Warrior, Shadow Work

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• Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

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  Violence, Terror

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

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  Karma, Children, Fate

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• The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

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  Self, Ego, Defeat

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1974). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy”

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• Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

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  Enemy, Needs

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• But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

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  Kindness, What If, Enemy

  "Psychology and religion: west and east".

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• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

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  Learning, Past, Drawing

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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• If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

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  Mind, Unhappy, Ifs

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

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  Hippie, Thoughtful, Flirting

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

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