To make what fate intends for me my own intention Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide. Carl Jung miraclecreativeart Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. Carl Jung inspirationalmenfall It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. Carl Jung greatest-fearcausesmilitary Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. Carl Jung inspirationallifechildren Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior. Carl Jung shadow-workwarriorheart The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." Carl Jung naturespiritualdark Religion is a defense against the experience of God. Carl Jung defensereligion The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung leadershipfunlove To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. Carl Jung reflectiondiscoveryprofound If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete. Carl Jung menmeanreality If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung familychangeinspirational Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness. Carl Jung completenessperfection As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Carl Jung childhoodinspirationalchildren There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung emotionalinspirationinspiring We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung wisdomtruthfun The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements. Carl Jung naturetreepeople What you resist persist. Carl Jung persistgoal Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror Carl Jung terrorviolence If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind. Carl Jung unhappyifsmind There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. Carl Jung psychicsimperfectionlight
