I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao. Carl Jung chinese names opposites Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do. Carl Jung free-will ability freedom I do not believe...I know. Carl Jung knows believe knowledge Without freedom there can be no morality. Carl Jung memories-dreams-reflections morality freedom Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. Carl Jung creativity giving art In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation. Carl Jung light dream attitude Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life. Carl Jung psychology broken running Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. Carl Jung wish dream order There is no birth of consciousness without pain. Carl Jung collective-unconscious birth pain One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms. Carl Jung speak common culture Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up. Carl Jung circles reflection men Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. Carl Jung law men lying For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Carl Jung alchemist sleep men Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism. Carl Jung movement Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. Carl Jung finding-yourself know-yourself becoming The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals. Carl Jung physicians doctors heal It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger. Carl Jung men philosophy reality The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything. Carl Jung fullness-of-life views spring What we lack is intensity of life. Carl Jung intensity Colors express the main psychic functions of man. Carl Jung psychics color men
