Quotes from Carl Jung

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

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.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

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

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.