It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. Carl Jung psychics community secret Nothing is possible without love. Carl Jung without-love The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. Carl Jung easier compromise inspirational Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again. Carl Jung sea dream dirty The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time. Carl Jung shadow-work real dark A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. Carl Jung remains understood dream The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. Carl Jung blind mind men If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. Carl Jung safety jumping fall It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind. Carl Jung color mind giving Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. Carl Jung consciousness influence thinking Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. Carl Jung discrepancies-between sad quality Everything psychic is pregnant with the future. Carl Jung pregnant psychics The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity. Carl Jung roots might father There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung pain light wisdom Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Carl Jung tasks belief men Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned. Carl Jung ego facts dull Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. Carl Jung assuming people world Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know. Carl Jung please healing remember A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. Carl Jung creative littles inspirational Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life. Carl Jung force imagination
