How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer. Carl Jung enlightenment darkness wish Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. Carl Jung individuation wrapping self One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. Carl Jung function spiritual people I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished. Carl Jung karma fate children Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power. Carl Jung responsibility christian beautiful Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth. Carl Jung doe home world I would rather be whole than good. Carl Jung whole Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Carl Jung myth individual doe While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego. Carl Jung ego health healing Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung creativity imagination play The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth. Carl Jung intellect judgment half The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. Carl Jung psychology unions body The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day. Carl Jung important mind dream Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung truth mistake men Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Carl Jung yield self sea Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil. Carl Jung devil If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung understanding stupid leadership The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Carl Jung artist spring giving The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. Carl Jung creative inspirational men All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. Carl Jung most-powerful powerful ideas
