Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies
Born: July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland
Died: June 6, 1961, Küsnacht, Switzerland
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.
Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.
God enters through the wound.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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.
I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
The true leader is always led.
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
