Popular Quotations with no proof Dr. Jung uttered them.
Dr. Jung never said: ““Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” which is why it is never found with a corresponding citation.
Dr. Jung did not say: “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~The actual source is Joseph Campbell “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living.”
Dr. Jung neve said: “You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.” This was actually said by Jean de La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16.
Dr. Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
What Dr. Jung said in two separate and unrelated statements was:
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Page 99.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung, CW 17, Para 331
Dr. Jung never said: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
What Dr. Jung said was:
It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391
Dr. Jung never said: “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. “
Dr. Jung did say: Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment! ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Page 344, Para 652.
Note: To date there is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “What you resist persists.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: Synchronicity Is An Ever Present Reality For Those Who Have Eyes To See
Should anyone have an actual citation for any of the above please let me know.
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