20 PROFOUND QUOTES BY CARL JUNG THAT WILL HELP YOU TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOURSELF
To some, this idea translates to religion — to finding solace in the
existence of something greater than yourself — but I believe this to be a
fickle form of spirituality, and one that does not truly help a person
get to the core of who they are (or, alternatively, who they are not).
According to www.cgjungpage.org: “Carl Jung was one of the creators of
modern depth psychology, which seeks to facilitate a conversation with
the unconscious energies which move through each of us. He contributed
many ideas which continue to inform contemporary life: complex, archetype, persona, shadow, anima and animus, personality typology, dream interpretation, individuation,
and many other ideas. He had a deep appreciation of our creative life
and considered spirituality a central part of the human journey.”
This summation of his life and work connects deeply to what Collective
Evolution is all about, and shares much in common with what inspired me
to create this platform in the first place. In putting together the
quotes in this article, I gained an even deeper appreciation for Jung
and his work, as I uncovered the conscious themes that were
apparent throughout his teachings. He was clearly a deep thinker with an
intimate knowledge of his inner being.
Jung also had an appreciation for astrology which, over the past few
years, I’ve begun to understand more and more and see profound value in.
I’m not talking about opening your daily paper and reading your
generalize horoscope, however, but true astrology. Something many of us
have never been properly exposed to and thus don’t understand the
real meaning of or value. (Maybe we’ll have to make a short
documentary on this one day!)
But enough on my own musings — onto the quotes! Here are 20 from
Jung that I feel not only serve as an accurate representation of his
work, but also provide much to reflect on.
20 Profound Quotes By Carl Jung That Will Help You To Better Understand Yourself
1.”One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”
2. “Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.”
3. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
4. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
5. “The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.”
6. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
7. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
8. “If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.”
9. “Mistakes are, after all, the
foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is
at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
10. “Your visions will become clear
only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.”
11. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
12. “Loneliness does not come from
having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things
that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which
others find inadmissible.”
13. “Depression is like a woman
in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her
a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.”
14. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
15. “Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul.”
16. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
17. “What you resist, persists.”
18. “A dream is a small hidden door
in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens
up to that primeval cosmic night that was the soul, long before there
was the conscious ego.”
19. “We may think that we fully control
ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that
we have absolutely no idea about.”
20. “Everything about other people that doesn’t satisfy us helps us to better understand ourselves.”
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