Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'
Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'
What it means
Borrowed lifestyles, copied routines and other people's answers do not fix what is wrong. Healing comes from what is genuinely yours. Find that, and build from it.
The source
"Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
"Only what is really oneself has the power to heal."H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'. Text read at archive.org.
Who said it
Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.
Questions
- What does "Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal." mean?
- Borrowed lifestyles, copied routines and other people's answers do not fix what is wrong. Healing comes from what is genuinely yours. Find that, and build from it.
- Who said "Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'.
- What is the original wording?
- Only what is really oneself has the power to heal (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
- Is "Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal." on a shirt?
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"Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/only-what-is-truly-yourself-has-the-power
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More from Carl Jung
- Your worst enemy lives inside your own chest.Two Essays (1928), I, ch. III 'The Other Point of View: The Will to Power'
- Trade yourself for a mask and you will pay for it.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- You and your job are two different things.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- The persona is only a mask. At bottom, it is not real.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. III 'The Persona as a Part of the Collective Psyche'
- Some people come to believe they are their public face.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- Become a single, whole being. Become your own real self.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. I 'The Function of the Unconscious'