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Carl Gustav Jung

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Wisdom from Carl Gustav

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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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. "

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."

- Carl Gustav Jung