Carl Jung Quotes

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

We must make ourselves strong to meet a future which is dark and obscure.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.