The Genius of Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

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.

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.

The true leader is always led.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of the facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. 

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

All of these great saying were by Carl Gustav Jung