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“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.”
― A.D. Posey

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I fancied that many things had existed in the past, but afterwards I guessed that there never had been anything in the past either, but that it had only seemed so for some reason. Little by little I guessed that there would be nothing in the future either. Then I left off being angry with people and almost ceased to notice them. Indeed this showed itself even in the pettiest trifles: I used, for instance, to knock against people in the street. And not so much from being lost in thought: what had I to think about? I had almost given up thinking by that time; nothing mattered to me. If at least I had solved my problems! Oh, I had not settled one of them, and how many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“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.”
― C.G. Jung

“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.”
― C.G. Jung

“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”
― Carl Jung

“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.”
― Carl Jung

“‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Jung

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”
― Carl Jung

“One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.”
― Carl Jung

“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”
― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”
― Carl Jung

“Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.”
― Carl Jung

“To be "normal" is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful,”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”
― C.G. Jung

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
― C.G. Jung

“Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.”
― Carl Jung

“One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.”
― Carl Jung

“The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.”
― C.G. Jung

“But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!”
― Carl G. Jung

“I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into
your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside,
awakens.”
― Carl Jung

“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”
― C.G. Jung