Carl Jung quotes - page 8

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. (Carl Jung)
I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness. View quote
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The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation. View quote
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For better to come, good must stand aside. View quote
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In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong. View quote
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Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. View quote
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. View quote
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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. View quote
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Creative power is mightier than its possessor. View quote
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Man cannot stand a meaningless life. View quote
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The sure path can only lead to death. (Carl Jung)
We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee. View quote
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His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community. View quote
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Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'. View quote
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Everyone is in love with his own ideas. View quote
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One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. View quote
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The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old) View quote
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves. View quote
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But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. View quote
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Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. View quote
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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. (Carl Jung)
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt. View quote
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All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge. View quote
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Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands. View quote
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A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience "Mother" into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine pair to the personal parents-the "god"father and "god"-mother of the newborn child-so that, from sheer unconsciousness or shortsighted rationalism, he should never forget himself so far as to invest his own parents with divinity. View quote
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