"To become conscious of it involves recognizing..." - Quote by Carl Jung
To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
More by Carl Jung
“...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.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
“Words are animals, alive with a will of their own”
More on Consciousness
“We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”
“If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.”
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
More on Shadow
“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
“Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”