Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. Carl Jung individualconsciousnessdevelopment I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force. Carl Jung resistancecirclessun Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. Carl Jung artistsoulage Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. Carl Jung musicsilencesound It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. Carl Jung cynicalsadmen ...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. Carl Jung consciousnessspacedoe We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Carl Jung acceptingchangeinspirational Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. Carl Jung midlifeegoletting-go In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas! Carl Jung giving-upmenideas The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung upliftingleadershiprelaxation I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are. Carl Jung safetyrealbelieve In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious Carl Jung collective-unconsciousastrologytaken We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung happinessinspirationallife Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. Carl Jung silencerealwriting Only the wounded physician heals. Carl Jung physicianshealwisdom There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung lunatic-asylumswould-bemen Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse. Carl Jung dreamrunningattitude The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it. Carl Jung individualexistenceworld The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself. Carl Jung psychologyegoself You are a slave of what you need in your soul. Carl Jung slavesoulneeds
