Quotes from Carl Jung

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

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

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.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

The sure path can only lead to death.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.