Brandon Metoyer > Brandon's Quotes

“It may seem that my discussion of synchronicity has led me away from my main theme, but I feel it is necessary to make at least a brief introductory reference to it because it is a Jungian hypothesis that seems to be pregnant with future possibilities of investigation and application. Synchronistic events, moreover, almost invariably accompany the crucial phases of the process of individuation. But too often they pass unnoticed, because the individual has not learned to watch for such coincidences and to make them meaningful in relation to the symbolism o f his dreams.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool”
― C.G. Jung

“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.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”
― Carl Jung

“We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.”
― C.G. Jung

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”
― C.G. Jung, Civilization in Transition

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
― Carl Jung

“Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth.

If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.”
― C.G. Jung

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

“Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”
― C.G. Jung

“What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.”
― Carl Jung

“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”
― C.G. Jung

“That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Symbols of Transformation

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
― C.G. Jung

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
― C.G. Jung

“The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.”
― Carl Jung

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
― C.G. Jung

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
― C.G. Jung

“I am a symbol of my soul.”
― Carl Jung

“It is only the things we don't understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it.”
― Carl Jung

“I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery.”
― C.G. Jung

“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”
― C.G. Jung

“One book opens another.”
― C.G. Jung

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

“The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual”
― C.G. Jung, Essays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46

“Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.”
― C.G. Jung

“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”
― C.G. Jung