Quotes from C.G. Jung

These passages show that the principles into which the world-creator divides himself are themselves divided. They were at first contained in Prajapati, as is clear from the following: Prajapati desired: I wish to be many, I will multiply myself. Then he meditated silently in his Mind, and what was in his Mind became brihat (song). He bethought himself: This embryo of me is hidden in my body, through Speech I will bring it forth. Then he created Speech.

The opening up of the unconscious always means the outbreak of intense spiritual suffering; it is as when a flourishing civilization is abandoned to invading hordes of barbarians, or when fertile fields are exposed by the bursting of a dam to a raging torrent.

Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de todos los acontecimientos históricos. Lo que existe en el pléroma como 'acontecimiento' eterno, aparece en el tiempo como secuencia aperiódica, es decir, se repite varias veces de modo irregular.»

Ä°nanc?n temeli bilinç deÄŸil, bireyin inanc?n? Tanr? ile dolays?z yolla iliÅŸkilendiren, spontan dinsel deneyimdir.

When an idea is so old and so generally believed, it must be true in some way, by which I mean that it is psychologically true.

But it is the same with every single human being and his reasonably ordered world. His reason has done violence to natural forces which seek their revenge and only await the moment when the partition falls to overwhelm the conscious life with destruction.

Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

In this way I make amends for the lack of a positive act by the clear knowledge of my incompetence. 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.

It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

A conscious capacity for one-sidedness is a sign of the highest culture, but involuntary one-sidedness, i.e., the inability to be anything but one-sided, is a sign of barbarism.

The dream, we would say, originates in an unknown part of the psyche and prepares the dreamer for the events of the following day.

The name Mithras is related to Modern Persian mihr, meaning 'love' and 'sun.

Give away all that thou hast, then shalt thou receive." Often, as I was writing

Hukuken konuÅŸursak, suçun orta?? olmasak bile, insan tabiat?m?z yüzünden her zaman potansiyel suçlular?z. Sadece o cehennem gibi meydan kavgas?na sürüklenecek uygun ortam? bulamad?k ÅŸimdiye dek.

Suç, nesiller önce iÅŸlenmiÅŸ olsa da, bugün iÅŸleniyor olsa da, her zaman ve her yerde olan bir eÄŸilimin semptomu olmaya devam etmektedir. Dolay?s?yla insan biraz "kötülüÄŸü hayal etse" iyi olurdu, zira ancak bir aptal kendi doÄŸas?n?n durumunu sürekli olarak görmezden gelebilir.

Repression, as we have seen, is not directed solely against sexuality, but against the instincts in general, which are the vital foundations, the laws governing all life.

In 1902, he became engaged to Emma Rauschenbach, whom he married and with whom he had five children. Up till this point, Jung had kept a diary. In one of the last entries, dated May 1902, he wrote: "I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love." 17 For Jung, his marriage marked a move away from the solitude to which he had been accustomed.

Men were not as yet possessed of that distrust of language which animates us moderns and frequently causes us to see in words a far from adequate expression of the facts. On the contrary, there was a simple and unsuspecting faith that the range of an idea and the range of the word roughly corresponding to it must in every case exactly coincide.18

And it came to pass that as Epimetheus stood upon his feet, he felt his stature was increased and his courage firmer, and all his being was at one with itself, and all his feeling was sound and mightily at ease. And thus he strode with bold steps through the valley, following the straight path as one who fears no man, with free and open bearing, like a man inspired by the contemplation of his own right-doing.8

People cannot stand too much reality.

Bilinci ne kadar geniÅŸlemiÅŸ ve farkl?laÅŸm??sa, ahlaki yap?s? o denli geri kalm??t?r. Ä°ÅŸte bugün önümüzdeki sorun budur. Ak?l tek ba??na yeterli deÄŸildir.

if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Consciousness did not exist from the beginning, and in every child it has to be built up anew in the first years of life. Consciousness is very weak in this formative period, and history shows us that the same is true of mankind—the unconscious easily seizes power.

To put it in scientific terms: instinctive defence-mechanisms have been developed which automatically intervene when the danger is greatest, and their coming into action is represented in fantasy by helpful images which are ineradicably fixed in the human psyche.