Quotes from Carl Jung
The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?
— Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
— Carl Jung
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
— Carl Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
— Carl Jung
We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.
— Carl Jung
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
— Carl Jung
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
— Carl Jung
A psycho-neurosis must be understood as the suffering of a human being who has not yet discovered what life means for him
— Carl Jung
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
— Carl Jung
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.
— Carl Jung
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.
— Carl Jung