Carl Jung Quotes to Inspire Your Journey to Self-Discovery

Carl Gustav Jung Quotes and psychology quotes for self-discovery.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychologist and pioneering evolutionary theorist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, perhaps best known through his biography/autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
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What is Analytical psychology?
Analytical psychology (sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" of the psyche. It was designed to distinguish it from Freud's psychoanalytic theories as their seven-year collaboration on psychoanalysis.
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Quotes By Carl Gustav Jung!

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

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

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

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Don't hold on to someone who's leaving, otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming."

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

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

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."

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

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

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

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

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

"If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back."

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

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."

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

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

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

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

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."

"That which you most need will be found where you least want to look."

"His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community."

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

"Shame is a soul eating emotion."

"To ask the right question is already half the solution to a problem."

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

"The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world."

"One is always inclined to lay the blame on external circumstances, but nothing could explode in us
if it had not been there."

"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."

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

"Where your fear is, there is your task."

"The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life form an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."

"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. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"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."

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

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
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