Carl Jung on Wisdom Quotes

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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

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

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

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

"What you resist, persists."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Shame is a soul-eating emotion."

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

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

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

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

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."