Quotes About Self

And you know what, it's your own twin self. When you're ready, jump into that self with the attitude you admire.

Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

In the absence of significant others, I had the liberating feeling of being absent from myself.

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

I guess no one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

I'm not a dog

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

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

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.

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

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. (quoted in Incognito )

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

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

Image is psyche.

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

because) the only real danger that exists is men himself. He is the great danger and we are pityfully unaware of it. We know nothing of men. Far too little ... Carl Gustav Jung, 1959 in an interview with John Freeman ( youtube watch?v=2AMu-G51yTY 38:04)