Quotes by C.G. Jung

“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of...”

“Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you don't need religion, since with fantasy you can understa...”

“If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death”

“It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me I am only a channel I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you.For instance, if life had led you to ta...”

“I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks”

“In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.”

“Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”

“Where your fear is,there is your task.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

“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. ”

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of mo...”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of lig...”

“The gods have become our diseases.”

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start fall...”

“The sight of a childwill arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted ou...”

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