Carl Jung Quotes About Suffering
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If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.
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Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
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Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
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Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.
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People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
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About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
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Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.
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Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
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