~ Carl Jung Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

If there is anything we wish to change in the child we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

[MysteRy]

Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

[MysteRy]

Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

[MysteRy]

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still small voice says to us something is out of tune.

[MysteRy]

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

[MysteRy]

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

[MysteRy]

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

[MysteRy]

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.

[MysteRy]

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

[MysteRy]

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

[MysteRy]

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

[MysteRy]

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.

[MysteRy]

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.