Carl Jung Quotes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

What you are looking for is within you

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.