Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Carl Jung yogaexerciseorder We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. Carl Jung happenedwishinspirational The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Carl Jung brightershadowlight Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation. Carl Jung gratitudegratefulblessing The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung positiverelationshipfriendship Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung wisedreaminspirational When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. Carl Jung purposegoalhands In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole. Carl Jung adultspersonalitychildren I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. Carl Jung personalityspiritualpeople Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see. Carl Jung synchronicityeyereality We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung thoughtfulchangeacceptance We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go. Carl Jung let-it-goheal Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. Carl Jung silencehealingtalking If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. Carl Jung lonelyknowsmen Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung thoughtfulleadershiplife A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master. Carl Jung menlongbelieve We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone. Carl Jung woundedheal To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. Carl Jung solutionsproblemhalf The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example. Carl Jung examplewayjesus We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. Carl Jung law-of-attractionpositivelife
