Carl Jung Quotes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.