Carl Jung Quotations from "Wounded Healer of the Soul" by Claire Dunne

He [Jung] told Laurens van der Post that he worked through 67,000 dreams with patients and helpers before even attempting to theorize about them. ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 85.

On May 6, 1961, too frail for his daily walk, Jung was driven around some of his favorite roads, saying goodbye to the countryside. ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 214.

I have been alternately accused of agnosticism, atheism, materialism and mysticism. ~Carl Jung, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 207.

When he [Jung] said, "Pull up your chair, for I am getting deaf and old and stupid," I could not help smiling as I reminded him that he had made exactly the same remark to me, just eleven years earlier. He replied with a chuckle "Well, it doesn't seem to get any better." ~Mary Crile, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Pages 194-195.

His "autobiography" he came to reluctantly; it was "the one thing I am not going to write" he had said in 1948. Strictly speaking, it is not an autobiography. He always spoke and wrote of it as "Aniela Jaffe's project," with contributions made by him in the form of childhood, travel, and closing chapters. ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 194.

The publication of Jung's deepest book, Mysterium Coniunctionis, was met with "stony incomprehension. . . at least for the time being." Although he wrote, "I have resigned myself to being posthumous," he also confessed, "sometimes I feel like an anachronism even to myself." ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 182.

When I asked him what he was writing he said, "My biography. . . . It is purgatory. Frau Jaffe is writing it but I must check it all because no one knows someone else's life. I have done the first twenty years because one can be more objective there." ~Mary Crile, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Pages 194-195.

He paused and then added thoughtfully, "I don't know the meaning of life." As he said this I felt that, even for Jung, who more than anyone else in our day saw life steadily and saw it whole, there still remained an unsolved mystery. ~Mary Crile, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Pages 194-195.

He [Jung] corresponded with international writers Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Erich Neumann, Miguel Serrano, Sir Laurens van der Post, Sir Herbert Read, Upton Sinclair, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, and Count Keyserling. ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 166.

"The Christian symbol is a living being that carries the seeds of further development in itself." "its foundations remain the same eternally," "Christianity must be interpreted anew in each aeon," otherwise "it suffocates in traditionalism." ~Carl Jung, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 149.

“God must be born in man forever. . . the creator sees himself through the eyes of man's consciousness." ~Carl Jung, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 147.

Carl Jung's "Thanks Offering"

In remembrance of his seventy-fifth birthday Jung chiseled a twenty-inch square stone with three alchemical inscriptions ”as a thanks offering."
The stone stands outside the tower at Bollingen "and is like an explanation of it." Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 140.

Here stands the mean, uncomely stone,
’Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise. Carl Jung, “Wehr,” Page 377.

Carl Jung: The unconscious itself is neither tricky nor evil - it is Nature, both beautiful and terrible

It is under all conditions a most advisable thing to keep to the conscious and rational side, i.e., to maintain that side.

One never should lose sight of it. It is the safeguard without which you would lose yourself on unknown seas.

You would invite illness, indeed, if you should give up your conscious and rational orientation.

On the other hand, it is equally true that life is not only rational.

To a certain extent you have to keep your senses open to the non-rational aspects of
existence. . . .

The unconscious itself is neither tricky nor evil - it is Nature, both beautiful and terrible. . . .

The best way of dealing with the unconscious is the creative way. . . Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 108-109.

Jung has said that the unconscious long identified as the oceanic in man, is Nature.

The seeker of himself often feels cast adrift, setting a course between light and dark but ultimately moved along by unseen currents deep within. Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 87.

The last time Mary Crile visited Dr. Jung.

Ar􀢢st Mary Crile visited Jung in that period.

The last 􀢢me I saw Jung face to face. . .

I found him much aged but there was the same kindly twinkle behind those penetrating eyes of his.

When he said, "Pull up your chair, for I am ge􀢰ng deaf and old and stupid," I could not help smiling as I reminded him that he had made exactly the same remark to me, just eleven years earlier.

He replied with a chuckle "Well, it doesn’t seem to get any better.". . .

When I asked him what he was writing he said, "My biography. . . .

It is purgatory. Frau Jaffe is writing it but I must check it all because no one knows someone else’s life.

I have done the first twenty years because one can be more objec􀢢ve there."

He paused and then added thoughtfully, "I don’t know the meaning of life."

As he said this I felt that, even for Jung, who more than anyone else in our day saw life steadily and saw it whole, there still remained an unsolved mystery. Mary Crile,Wounded Healer of the Soul, Pages 194-195.