"To become acquainted with oneself is a..." - Quote by Carl Jung
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
More by Carl Jung
“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”
“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
“If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.”
More on Self Knowledge
“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
“There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.”
More on Awareness
“average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
“That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!”
“To be awake is to be alive.”