Carl Jung on Gratitude Quotes

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity."

"The world is as it ever has been, but our consciousness undergoes peculiar changes."

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

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

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."

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

"Shame is a soul-eating emotion."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

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

"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."

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

"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."

"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it."

"It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"The soul needs your recklessness, not your approval."

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

"Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion."

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

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

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."

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

"What you resist, persists."

"Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see."

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

"In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody."

"Life is a short pause between two great mysteries."

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

"I am grateful that I am not a Jungian."