Carl Jung Quotes

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live in fear. Fear is the mind killer.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.