Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious'
Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious'
What it means
Finding your own way means no map and no crowd to follow. Jung does not promise it is safe. He asks for hope, alertness and honesty about the risks.
The source
"Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
"So every man, whose fate it is to find his own individual way, must go with the bare hope and keen watchfulness of one who is conscious of the loneliness of his path and the danger of its mist-hung abysses."H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious'. 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 "Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes." mean?
- Finding your own way means no map and no crowd to follow. Jung does not promise it is safe. He asks for hope, alertness and honesty about the risks.
- Who said "Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious'.
- What is the original wording?
- So every man, whose fate it is to find his own individual way, must go with the bare hope and keen watchfulness of one who is conscious of the loneliness of his path and the danger of its mist-hung abysses (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
- Is "Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes." on a shirt?
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Cite this line
"Your own way is a lonely path. Walk it with open eyes." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. VIII 'The Understanding of the Unconscious', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/your-own-way-is-a-lonely-path-walk
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