15 Carl Jung phrases so you can better understand yourself

If trying to understand other people seems very complicated, it is logical that understanding yourself is even more complex.

To help you understand yourself and accept yourself as you are, we share a series of phrases of Carl Jungwho was the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded nothing less than analytical psychology.

Read very carefully and you will see that each of these phrases it will help you understand yourself.

1. Life not lived is a disease from which one can die.

2. Loneliness does not come from not having people around you, but from not being able to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding certain points of view that others consider inadmissible.

3. A man who has not passed through the hell of his passions has never overcome them.

4. Don’t hold back who walks away from you. Because that way those who want to get closer will not arrive.

5. Show me a healthy human being and I’ll cure it for you.

6. People do whatever, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.

7. Everything that irritates us about others leads us to an understanding of ourselves.

8. We tend towards the past, towards our parents and forward, towards our children, a future that we will never see, but that we want to take care of.

9. I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to be.

10. If you are a talented person, it does not mean that you have already received something. It means that you can give something.

11. What you resist, persists.

12. We can come to think that we are completely in control. However, a friend can easily tell us something about us that we had no idea about.

13. The meeting of two people is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

14. Depression is like a lady in black. If she arrives, don’t expel her, rather invite her as a diner at the table, and listen to what she has to say.

fifteen. “Magical” is just another word for the soul.

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