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Carl Jung Inspirational Quotes (444)

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One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
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However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.
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The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
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Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
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The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
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It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.
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Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.
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Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it
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The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
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Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
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My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning and in religion, that of empiricism.
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If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.
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The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
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How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
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All neurotics seek the religious
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As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
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God enters through the wound.
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All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
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About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
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