Understanding does not cure evil,
by Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
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Sayings by Carl Jung
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung 
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
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Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- 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
In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
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
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- 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
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
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- 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
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
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- 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 shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- 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
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Understanding Sayings
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The loving energy that I radiate into this world
is a gift beyond my own understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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