Carl Jung

Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.

—Carl Jung

No concept is a carrier of life.

—Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow…and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

—Carl Gustav Jung 

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

—Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

—Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)

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In psychology as in biology we cannot afford to overlook or underestimate this question of origins, although the answer usually tells us nothing about the functional meaning. For this reason biology should never forget the question of purpose, for only by answering that can we get at the meaning of a phenomenon. Even in pathology, where we are concerned with lesions which have no meaning in themselves, the exclusively causal approach proves to be inadequate, since there are a number of pathological phenomena which only give up their meaning when we inquire into their purpose. And where we are concerned with the normal phenomena of life, this question of purpose takes undisputed precedence.

—C. G. Jung; The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (via victorioushandofgod)

As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in Nature and has lost his emotional “unconscious identity” with natural phenomena….No voices now speak to man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with Nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

—Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols

‎”A life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned

—Carl Jung

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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

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

—Carl Jung

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It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

— C. Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering

—Carl Jung

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

—Carl G. Jung (via morganlilly)

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All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

—Carl G. Jung