Quotes from Carl Jung

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are irresistibly attracted to him. I would feel like to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

in what myth does a man live nowadays? In the Christian myth, the answer might be. "Do you live in it?" I asked myself. To be honest, the answer was no. For me it is not what I live by. "Then do we no longer have any myth?" "No, evidently we no longer have any myth." "But then what is your myth — the myth in which you do live?" At this point the dialogue with myself became uncomfortable, and I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end.

Behold the secret conspiracy between mother and son, and how each helps the other to betray life.

God is not a statistical truth, hence it is just as stupid to try to prove the existence of God as to deny him.

in reality only a change in the attitude of the individual can bring about a renewal in the spirit of nations. Everything begins with the individual.