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Acceptance
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological Reflections
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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Adventure
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Adversity
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Age
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Assumptions
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The psychological context of dream-contents consists in the web of associations in which the dream is naturally embedded. Theoretically we can never know anything in advance about this web, but in practice it is sometimes possible, granted long enough experience. Even so, careful analysis will never rely too much on technical rules; the danger of deception and suggestion is too great. In the analysis of isolated dreams above all, this kind of knowing in advance and making assumptions on the grounds of practical expectation or general probability is positively wrong. It should therefore be an absolute rule to assume that every dream, and every part of a dream, is unknown at the outset, and to attempt an interpretation only after carefully taking up the context. We can then apply the meaning we have thus discovered to the text of the dream itself and see whether this yields a fluent reading, or rather whether a satisfying meaning emerges.
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1944), pg. 48
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Belief
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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Caution
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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Chaos
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Committee
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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Conflict
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Creativity
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Decisions
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Aims of Psychotherapy
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Dreams
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Ego
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An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Emotions
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Evangelism
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Evil
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Faith
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If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psyche and Symbol, 1958
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Fate & Destiny
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Books by and about Carl Gustav Jung