We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. 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 yoga exercise order The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Carl Jung brighter shadow light 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 gratitude grateful blessing The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung positive relationship friendship Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung wise dream inspirational When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. Carl Jung purpose goal hands 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 adults personality children 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 personality spiritual people Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see. Carl Jung synchronicity eye reality We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung thoughtful change acceptance We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go. Carl Jung let-it-go heal 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 silence healing talking If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. Carl Jung lonely knows men Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung thoughtful leadership life 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 men long believe We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone. Carl Jung wounded heal To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. Carl Jung solutions problem half 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 example way jesus We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. Carl Jung law-of-attraction positive life Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. Carl Jung intuition feelings thinking
