If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Quote by Carl Jung

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too...

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there...

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love...

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love...

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree...

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree...

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life...

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life...

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that...

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that...

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in...

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other...

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other...

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power...

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power...

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never...

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never...

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

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that...

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that...

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.