Quotes from C.G. Jung

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

The gods have become our diseases.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

Explore daily the will of God.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

I indignantly answered, "Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness? Do you call day night?" To this my soul spoke a word that roused my anger, "My light is not of this world." I cried, "I know of no other world!" The soul answered, "Should it not exist because you know nothing of it?