The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
C. G. Jung
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
C. G. Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
C. G. Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.... Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
C. G. Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
C. G. Jung
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being.... Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
C. G. Jung
I have treated many hundreds of patients.... Among [those] in the second half of life, that is to say, over 35, there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
C. G. Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
C. G. Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
C. G. Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
