Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. Carl Jung unconsciouspursuitkeys Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. Carl Jung faith-hope-loveeffortachievement To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. Carl Jung shadowlightshows The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. Carl Jung longingconsciousnesslight But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. Carl Jung life-ispeopleart Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. Carl Jung neurosismental-illnesswar As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung dreamheartnight Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul Carl Jung miracletheorysoul The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. Carl Jung defeategoself But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. Carl Jung afternoonmorninglying Invited or not, God is present. Carl Jung invited Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force Carl Jung giving-uptoo-muchhappiness We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live. Carl Jung errorsmistakechrist Commendation heals; condemnation destroys. Carl Jung commendationcondemnationheal I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man. Carl Jung good-manwholemen In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung secret-lovethoughtfulorder The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite. Carl Jung lightmenorder The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment. Carl Jung psychicsrelationshipmen Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable Carl Jung wisebelieveart In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. Carl Jung outlook-on-lifeessenceacceptance
