We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.
More Quotes from Carl Gustav Jung:
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forcesCarl Gustav Jung
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
Carl Gustav Jung
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Carl Gustav Jung
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.
Carl Gustav Jung
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Gustav Jung
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Carl Gustav Jung
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