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Memories, Dreams, Reflections QUOTES

1 " I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

2 " Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

3 " The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

4 " They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

5 " As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

6 " 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. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

7 " The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

8 " As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

9 " I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

10 " Where there is a will there is a way! "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

11 " Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

12 " The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

13 " The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

14 " 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. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

15 " Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious
hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

16 " We are still a long way from understanding what it signifies that nothing has any existence, unless some small - and oh, so transitory - consciousness has become aware of it. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

17 " But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes! "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

18 " The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

19 " About this time I had a dream which both frightened and
encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was
making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog
was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny
light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything
depended on my keeping this little light alive. Suddenly I had the
feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back,
and saw a gigantic black figure following me. But at the same
moment I was conscious, in spite of my terror, that I must keep my
little light going through night and wind, regardless of all dangers.
When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a "specter of the
Brocken," my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being
by the little light I was carrying. I knew, too, that this little light was my
consciousness, the only light I have. 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. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections

20 " No one has any obligations to a concept; that is what is so agreeable about conceptuality—it promises protection from experience. "

― C.G. Jung , Memories, Dreams, Reflections