Carl Jung Quotes — Page 25

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Philosophical

“The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.”

Real Dark Shadow Work

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Philosophical

“The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.”

World Spirit Collective Unconscious

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Grieving

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”

Healing Solitude

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Philosophical

“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”

Fate Meditation

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Philosophical

“There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.”

Thinking Men Historical

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Philosophical

“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.”

Years Night Psychics

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Spiritual

“Explore daily the will of God.”

Gods Will

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Determined

“The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.”

Depth Ascent

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Philosophical

“The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.”

Children Personality Sight

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Philosophical

“Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”

Psychology Recognition Astrology

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Hopeful

“We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.”

Problem Add Capacity

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Philosophical

“It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .”

Feet Lazy Individuality

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