Quotes from Carl Jung

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

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.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the years 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.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

What you resist persist.

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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other