30 quotes by Carl Jung that reflect on human existence

You are what you do. Not what you say you’re going to do.

There is no awakening of consciousness without pain.

Loneliness is not not having people around you, but being unable to express things that seem important, or to perceive certain points of view that others find inadmissible.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with other people’s darkness.

Who looks outside, dreams. Whoever looks within, wakes up.

There is nothing more terrifying than accepting yourself completely.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become.

We cannot change anything without first accepting it.

The soul is independent of time and space.

Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Nature makes no mistakes.

Children are educated for what adults are, not what they say.

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Until you become conscious, the unconscious will direct your life and you will call it destiny.

You can only find out what it is by the effect you have on others.

Without freedom we cannot have morality.

The point is not to achieve perfection, but totality.

Only what we really are has the power to heal us.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but when touching a human soul, just be another human soul.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical elements: if there is any reaction, the two are transformed.

Everything that irritates us about others can guide us to understand ourselves.

Creativity is not conquered by intelligence, but by playing with instincts.

Choosing the right question is already half-solving the problem.

What you resist, persists.

You know your destiny on the path you choose to avoid.

Dreams are illustrations from a book your soul is writing about you.

Where love ends, power, violence and terror begin.

Religion is the defense against the experience of God.

The reason the world is bad is people’s inability to tell their own story.