Carl Jung Quotes

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

I'm actually very spiritual.

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.