C.G. Jung: Trending quotes (page 8)

“Explore daily the will of God.”

“Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

“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.”

“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

“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.”

“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 gods have become our diseases.”

“The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

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

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.”

“We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.”

“Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”