Daily Letter

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society

Jung on god

DURING THE PAST thirty years, people from all the civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. Many hundreds of patients have passed through my hands.... Among all my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.