Quotes from Carl Jung

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.