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Quotes from C G Jung
Relating to a Metaphysical Perspective
"Life is the touchstone for the truth of spirit.
Spirit that drags man away from life, seeking fulfillment only in itself, is a
false spirit - though man is to blame, since he can choose whether he
will give himself up to this spirit or not.
Life and Spirit are two great powers or
necessities between which
man is placed.
Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest
development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is
nothing if it cannot live."
C G Jung "The Practical Use of Dream
Analysis" (1934) The Practice of Psychotherapy pg. 647
"The West (thus) developed a new disease: the conflict between science and
religion. The critical philosophy of science became as it were
negatively metaphysical - in other words, materialistic - on the basis
of an error of judgement; matter was assumed to be a tangible and
recognizable reality. Yet this is a thoroughly metaphysical concept
hypostasised by uncritical minds. Matter is an hypothesis. When you say
"matter" you are creating asymbol for something unknown, which may just
as well be a spirit or anything else; it may even be God."
C G Jung CW
"It is highly sensible......to make clear the primacy of the psyche, for that
is the one thing which life does not make clear to us. We are so hemmed
in by things which jostle and oppress that we never get a chance, in
the midst of all these `given' things, to wonder by whom they are
`given'.....we (need to) learn that the giver of all things dwells
within us. This is a truth which in the face of all evidence, in the
greatest things as in the smallest, is never known, although it is
often so very necessary, indeed vital, for us to know it."
C G Jung CW vol 11 para 841
"....the unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the
unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They
are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our
psyche time does not exist at all."
C G Jung CW vol 18, para. 684
"...one has to link
the body to the Self, because the distinct body is
the distinct appearance of the Self in three dimensional
space.......you cannot say the mind is a function of the Self without
saying the body is a function of the Self."
C G Jung: Nietzsche's Zarathustra p. 396
"...the Self is a borderline concept, which I call a symbol because it expresses something we cannot
express otherwise, because we simply don't understand it. The idea of
the Self is really unknown ground. The psychological definition is that
the Self is the totality of consciousness and unconsciousness, and that
sounds pretty definite, we seem to know what consciousness is and to
have a fairly clear idea about the unconscious. But to say we know the
unconscious is going too far; we only know of it.... A concept that
contains a definite factor like consciousness and an indefinite factor
like unconsciousness is not scientific....it is metaphysical in its
nature per definition: it overreaches itself."
"Nietzsche's Zarathustra" p. 413-4
"...a highly educated Indian visited me....and we talked about Indian
education, in particular about the relationship between guru and chela.
I hesitantly asked him whether he could tell me anything about the
person and character of his own guru whereupon he replied in a matter
of fact tone, "Oh yes, he was Shankaracharya.
"You don't mean the commentator on the vedas who died centuries ago?" I
asked.
"Yes, I mean him,"he said to my amazement.
"Then you are referring to a spirit?" I asked.
"Of course it was his spirit," he agreed.
At that moment I thought of Philemon.
"There are ghostly gurus too," he added. "Most people have living gurus. But
there are always some who have a spirit for a teacher."
This information was both illuminating and reassuring to me. Evidently,
then, I had not plummeted right out of the human world but had only
experienced the sort of thing that could happen to others who made
similar efforts."
C G Jung "Memories Dreams Reflections"
p184.
"Love `bears all things' and `endures all things' (1 Cor. 13:7). These words
say all there is to said: nothing can be added to them.....Being part
man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it ,
or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed
within it. He is dependent upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his
light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. `Love ceases not'
-whether he speaks with the `tongues of angels' or with scientific
exactitude traces the life of a cell down to its uttermost source. Man
can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command,
and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he
possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the
unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the
name of God. That is a confession of his subjection, his imperfection,
and his dependency; but at the same time a testimony to his freedom to
choose between truth and error."
C G Jung "Memories, Dreams, Reflections"
p.354
"Were it not a fact of experience that supreme values
reside in the soul, psychology would not interest me in the least, for
the soul would then be nothing but a miserable vapor. I know, however,
from hundredfold experience that it is nothing of the sort, but on the
contrary contains the equivalents of everything that has been
formulated in dogma and a good deal more, which is just what enables it
to be an eye destined to behold the light. This requires limitless
range and unfathomable depth of vision. I have been accused of deifying
the soul. Not I but God Himself deified it."
Psychology and Alchemy (1944) pg. 14
"The body is the expression of a
preexisting uniqueness.....and if
the
body is created by the Self, and the Self is called a uniqueness, then
we identify this uniqueness with the uniqueness of the moment of
creation."
"The body is, of course, also a concretisation, or a function, of that
unknown thing (the Self) which produces the psyche as well as the body;
the difference we make between the psyche and the body is artificial."
C G Jung: Nietzsche's Zarathustra p. 396
"The great events of world history are, at
bottom, profoundly
unimportant.
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual.
This alone makes history, here alone do
the great transformations
first take place,
and the whole future, the whole history of the world,
ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in
individuals.
In our most private and most subjective
lives
we are not only the passive witnesses of our age,
and its sufferers, but also it makers. We make our own epoch."
CW 10 para.315
"The psyche is the world's pivot: not only is the one great condition for
the existence of a world at all, it is also an intervention in the
existing natural
order, and no one can say with certainty where this intervention will
finally end."
C G Jung: CW vol 8, para 423
The least of things with a meaning is
worth more in life than the
greatest of things without it.
Psychic reality exists in its original oneness, and awaits
man's advance to a level of consciousness where he no longer believes
in the one part and denies the other, but recognizes both as
constituent elements of one psyche.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering
brutality.
-Carl Jung.
- Your vision will become clear only when you
look
into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens. -Carl Jung.
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