Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light. Carl Jung marriagefiretwo Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. Carl Jung nextgrowthfear The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure. Carl Jung collective-unconsciousrunninglong What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] Carl Jung meaningfullyingchildren Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. Carl Jung understoodunderstandinghappens People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. Carl Jung mindbelievepeople Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. Carl Jung connectionsmeaningfulworld Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine. Carl Jung enchantmentmedicineform The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. Carl Jung fatewritingmen No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind. Carl Jung psychologyreligiousthinking Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent Carl Jung parentchildren There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance. Carl Jung spiritualworldneeds The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. Carl Jung realizingtryingmen Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness. Carl Jung sadhappyhappiness Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. Carl Jung modernforcemen Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. Carl Jung treesometimesbook The greatest sin is to be unconscious. Carl Jung unconscioussin The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. Carl Jung illusionintelligentmen The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body. Carl Jung bodytragedywant In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. Carl Jung individualconsciousnessdevelopment
