Have you ever come across a time in your life where you feel like there’s a hollow void deep within you – A void that leaves you feeling incomplete and confused about life? A feeling that makes you think that there’s something big missing that prevents you from being genuinely happy?
No matter where you may be on your life journey, there comes a point where circumstances question where you stand. Your values and beliefs are put to the test under exceptionally challenging events.
According to the iconic psychoanalyst Carl Jung, this is the uncomfortable process of finding your true identity. This process is something he calls ‘individuation’; the journey of ‘becoming who one is.
Whatever you may call it yourself, there’s no denying that this process is necessary for one to live a true and meaningful life. There will be days when you feel like you’re almost there and some days when you feel like you’re lost for direction. We’re here to help.
We’ve collected 60+ Carl Jung Quotes for you to read when you are in need of guidance and affirmation at times when you feel lost on the journey of finding yourself.
Here are 60+ Carl Jung Quotes To Guide You On Your Journey of Finding Yourself:
1. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
2. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”
3. “Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.”
4. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
5. “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
6. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
7. “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”
8. “The urge to become what one is is invincibly strong, and you can always count on it, but that does not mean that things will necessarily turn out positively. If you are not interested in your own fate, the unconscious is.”
9. “As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.”
10. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
11. “Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”
12. “Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
13. “The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.”
14. “To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.”
15. “I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.”
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16. “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are themselves”
17. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
18. “I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”
19. “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”
20. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
21. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.”
22. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do”
23. “Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”
24.“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
25. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
26. “Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
27. “That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.”
28. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
29. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
30. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain”
31. “Man is not a machine that can be remodeled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”
32. “What you resist, persists.”
33. “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
34. “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.”
35. “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
36. “What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved — what then?”
37. “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
38. “Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”
39. “Looking outwards has got to be turned into looking into oneself. Discovering yourself provides you with all you are, were meant to be, and all you are living from and for.”
40. “The first half of my life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
41. “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
42. “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
43. “Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”
44. “Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth.”
45. “When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”
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46. “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”
47. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
48. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it”
49. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”
50. “Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
51. “The more deliberately seek happiness the more sure you are not to find it. It is therefore far better to take things as they come along, with patience and equanimity”
52. “Nobody can achieve happiness through preconceived ideas, one should rather call it a gift of the gods. It comes and goes, and what has made you happy once does not necessarily do so at another time.”
53. “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
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54. “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
55. “We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
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56. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
57. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
58. “The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”
59. “I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy, but without that trait, I would not have reached my goal.”
60. “To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.”
61. “In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
62. “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”
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