Quotes About Individuation

#1. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey

#2. Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

Bryant McGill

#4. The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

James Hollis

#5. God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#7. The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

James Hollis

#8. The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

Sera J. Beak

#9. My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day ... I guarded them like precious pearls ... It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

Carl Jung

#10. Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact ... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Carl Jung

#11. We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#12. In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Theodor Adorno

#14. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Carl Jung

#15. The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#16. Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.

James Hillman

#17. Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.

Tyler J. Hebert

#18. Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

Pamela Anderson

#19. So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone ... The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

E.L. Doctorow

#20. For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#21. I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Herbert Read

#22. Working consciously with the Divine Map of Transformation aligns you to the Earth and the Heavens, to your soul purpose and your personal individuation, to your inner growth and external manifestation.

Gia Combs-Ramirez

#23. Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.

C. G. Jung

#24. It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society ("collectivity") to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

Gary Valentine Lachman

#25. Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.

Jane Davenport Platko

#26. You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#27. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Pythagoras

#28. When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.

Bud Harris

#29. Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.

Zeena Schreck

#30. We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.

Anthon St. Maarten

#31. I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.

C. G. Jung