"Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world."
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Carl Jung quotes (page 7 of 42)
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"The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth."
"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
"One must be able to let things happen."
"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
"Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living."
"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."
"There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection."
"We discover ourselves through others."
"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."
"One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself."
"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."
"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
"What you resist persist."
"Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals."
"...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all."
"If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete."
"I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole."
"If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind."