Carl Jung on Burnout Quotes

"Deeply disappointed by the results of my efforts, I began to realize that I was still in the grip of the persona."

"The ego is not the master in its own house."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally is it the tortured who turn into torturers."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."

"Shrinking from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely."

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."

"The emotions are the very stuff of which life is made."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"The reason for the existence of the neurosis is the refusal to endure the suffering that is necessary."

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."