Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.Carl Jung
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
Psychiatrist & Psychoanalyst · 1875 – 1961
Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. His concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes and introversion and extraversion remain influential in psychology and culture.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking.Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.Carl Jung