Carl Jung

One day, when I was about eleven, I was sitting in the garden, waiting for my mother, and I had a vision. The world suddenly became transparent. I saw into the depths of things. The trees, the houses, the whole landscape, the clouds, the distant mountains, everything was bathed in an aura of light.

I was often so tormented by unanswerable questions that I would put my head down on the table and cry.

My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious. Everything in it can be seen in the light of an individuation process.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Every secret is a hole in the soul.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by what he says.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.