Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the T...
I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how di...
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.
I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is po...
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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.
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
You do not have an inferior function, it has you.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
