Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born a….
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness..
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means th….
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no kn….
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who….
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.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries..
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity..
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom..
We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go..
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life..
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover….
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be g….
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow..
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death.
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body..
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes..
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth….
We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own l….
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he o….
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement..