Carl JungThe man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.371Hope
Carl JungThe Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ✨ Carl Gus… ▶372Hope
Carl JungThe first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.372Life
Carl JungWarmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). The development of … ▶362Reading
Carl JungComplexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, b… ▶362LifeReadingThought
Carl JungIt is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.373Time
Carl JungEveryone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (… ▶373Humanity
Carl JungSensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.351Thought
Carl JungIt is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality.362Thought
Carl JungEvery psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1969). Psychology and religion: west and east341Thought
Carl JungThe general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.363Reflection
Carl JungConsciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1959). pt. 1. The arche… ▶363ThoughtTruth
Carl JungOne of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.385HumanityLife
Carl JungWith a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know t… ▶352HumanityLifeTime
Carl JungA true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.341ThoughtTruth
Carl JungA creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1973). Memories, dreams, reflections, Rando… ▶363LifePoliticsReflection
Carl JungA particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.341Hope
Carl JungI cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the g… ▶363LifePhilosophy
Carl JungWhen you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is… ▶352Death
Carl JungOur blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1958). Psychology and religion: West and East374Philosophy
Carl JungThe continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation. Christ, the son begotten by … ▶363Truth
Carl JungDreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are t… ▶363HumanityReadingTruth
Carl JungOur mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He i… ▶363ThoughtTime
Carl JungI know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I fe… ▶342LifeReflection
Carl JungIf there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.353Time
Carl JungI 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, out… ▶353HumanityLifePhilosophy
Carl JungBetween the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.331Philosophy
Carl JungI must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.364Philosophy
Carl JungMan is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.375Time
Carl JungIt is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cann… ▶331Humor
