People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
—Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 99.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
—Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology, P. 193
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Page 247.
The healthy man does not torture others-generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
—Carl Jung; Civilization in Transition; Page 587.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
—Carl Jung, MDR, Page 277
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
—Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 236-237.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves. Thinking is an act of the soul whereby it becomes conscious of itself and of other things outside itself.
—Carl Jung; Symbols of Transformation; Footnote 2.
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy any creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.
—Carl Jung; Psychological Types Ch. 1; Page 82.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
—Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Page 154.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
—Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, Pages 451-452.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow-sufferer.
—Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Pages 234-235.
I realize that under the circumstances you have described you feel the need to see clearly. But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.
—Carl Jung, Letters Volume I, Page 33.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
—Carl Jung; The Philosophical Tree; CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
After all, the essential thing is not the shadow but the body which casts it.
—Carl Jung, CW 16, Page 64.
William Dare 