Carl Gustav Jung
22 Selected Wisdoms
22 Selected Wisdoms
22 Quotes found
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."
"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. "
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
"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."
"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."
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."