Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols. Carl Jung psychicsintuitionreality Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. Carl Jung evilmenworld Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung overcoming-addictionrecoverydrinking Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied. Carl Jung homeanimalmen The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. Carl Jung unwrittenunconsciousmankind Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken. Carl Jung dreaminspirationallooks Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung summercivilizationthinking Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses Carl Jung spiritualrunningmen The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. Carl Jung goalexpressionself An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. Carl Jung understandingheartteacher The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung heartachethoughtfullife Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. Carl Jung unconscioussymbolswater Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. Carl Jung being-happymeaningfultwo The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. Carl Jung intellectualmonstersattitude The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens. Carl Jung too-muchconscioussecret You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence. Carl Jung innovationinfluenceifs The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time. Carl Jung astrologycoincidencefacts Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return. Carl Jung water-of-lifemayrivers An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. Carl Jung farewellmenlife 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. Carl Jung winehurtscience
