Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and became one of the most influential interpreters of the spiritual dimension of the human mind in the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, he was Sigmund Freud's most famous collaborator and then his most consequential dissenter, breaking with Freud in 1913 over the role of the spiritual in the unconscious. His concepts — the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the shadow, the anima and animus, synchronicity — became foundational vocabulary for the contemplative-psychological turn of the late twentieth century. His Red Book, published posthumously in 2009, revealed a contemplative practitioner of extraordinary depth. He died in 1961 in Küsnacht; his Bollingen Tower remains a place of pilgrimage for serious students of his work.
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Quotes by Carl Jung
104 quotes“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another. There is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others do not know.”
“The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“To this day, God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly.”
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.”
“Symbols are the manifestations and expressions of the excess libido.”
“The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.”
“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you — are you there?”
“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.”
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