 I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Category Archives: Carl Jung
Carl Jung – Everything that irritates us
| Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – The sole purpose of human existence
| As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Anything we wish to change in a child
| If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Make the unconscious conscious
| Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Playing with fantasy
| Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Significance in the afternoon of human life
| The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – The best work
| The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Mistakes are, after all, the. . .
| Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Thinking is difficult
| Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – Promising everything or too much
| The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – The shoe that fits one person
| The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
