Knowing your own darkness is the best method
by Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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Sayings by Carl Jung
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
- Carl Jung
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Knowing Sayings
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your Sayings
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
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