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

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

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

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

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

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

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

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

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."
— Carl Gustav Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

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

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. "
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted..."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

"Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."
— Carl Gustav Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

"Explore daily the will of God."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The true leader is always led."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

"Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?"
— Carl Gustav Jung

"When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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

"Aquel que no ha pasado a traves del infierno de sus pasiones, no las ha superado nunca..."
— Carl Gustav Jung