Carl Jung

Solitude is for me a source of healing that makes my life worth living. Speaking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

The first half of life is directed toward the object, the second half toward the subject.

God enters through the wound.

The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.

Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience.

If you feel the need to justify yourself, it's because you are surrounded by the wrong people.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

If a man knows more than the others, he becomes solitary.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours.

A man who is not on fire is nothing.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

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.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

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

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

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

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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 of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

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

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

No tree can grow to Heaven unless it’s roots reach down to Hell.

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

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations.

Neurotic problems are the language of the unconscious emerging into social awareness.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

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

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

A tree that wants to reach up into heaven has to grow its roots all the way into hell.

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

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

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

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.