The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. Carl Jung personality dark needs The unconscious psyche believes in life after death Carl Jung science believe religion It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Carl Jung light spiritual art Dawn is born at midnight. Carl Jung born midnight dawn Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. Carl Jung memories-dreams-reflections consciousness limits Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. Carl Jung shadow-work intention individual It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. Carl Jung wickedness evil heart Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved. Carl Jung enemy needs Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. Carl Jung psychology farewell heart The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung ability resources truth What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Carl Jung imagination loss death If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem. Carl Jung matter want might The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature. Carl Jung angel men hands Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. Carl Jung being-sad cutting inspirational The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. Carl Jung process-of-change punishment understanding Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals. Carl Jung deceiving doe I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate. Carl Jung taken expression self Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious Carl Jung unconscious intuition perception The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung thoughtful shoes life Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. Carl Jung unconscious pursuit keys