C.G. Jung: Trending quotes (page 6)

“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.”

“The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.”

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

“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“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.”

“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

“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”

“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)”

“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.”

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung

found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito”

“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”

“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”

“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”

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