C.G. Jung Quotes - Page 2

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

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 light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

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 falls upon the dreamer.

The sight of a child…will 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 out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

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

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Ale žádný vysoko vzrostlý, vznešený strom se ještě nikdy nevzdal svých temných kořenů. Roste nejen nahoru, nýbrž také dolů. Jistě je naprosto důležité to, kam člověk jde; ale stejně důležitá mi připadá otázka: Kdo kam jde? A ono "kdo" vždycky vede k "odkud".

To, že na nás božství působí, můžeme konstatovat jen prostřednictvím psyche, přičemž ale nejsme schopni rozlišit, zda tato působení pocházejí od Boha, nebo z nevědomí, tj. nelze stanovit, zda božství a nevědomí jsou dvě různé veličiny. Obojí jsou mezní pojmy pro transcendentáln�

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.