Carl Jung on Minimalism Quotes

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment than the unlived life of the parent."

"Shrinking from suffering is a refusal to live a real life."

"The world is as it is, but it is also how we see it."

"The great decisions of human life have as a rule much more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will."

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

"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. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

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

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

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

"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 the end, we are all that we have."

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling."

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

"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 capacity for inner peace is the only real wealth."

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

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

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

"The soul needs your reckless abandonment, not your adult defenses."

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

"Everything depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."

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