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Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung, letter, 1916

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This one is genuine: Jung wrote it in a letter to Fanny Bowditch dated 22 October 1916, published in C.G. Jung Letters, Volume 1. The contrast is the heart of his method: outward looking produces dreams — fantasy and projection; inward looking is the harder work of waking, meeting one's own motives and shadows without disguise.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Görülerin ancak kendi kalbine bakabildiğinde berraklaşır. Dışarı bakan düş görür. İçeri bakan uyanır.
Carl Jung, mektup, 1916

Bu söz gerçektir: Jung bunu 22 Ekim 1916'da Fanny Bowditch'e yazdığı, C.G. Jung Letters 1. ciltte yayımlanan mektupta kaleme aldı. Karşıtlık, yönteminin kalbidir: Dışarıya bakmak düşler üretir — fantezi ve yansıtma; içeriye bakmaksa uyanmanın zor işidir: İnsanın kendi niyetleriyle ve gölgeleriyle kılıksız yüzleşmesi.

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Batch 2026-07-05 (reviewed): popular Jung attribution; exact source not verified in this pass.

Background reading: Carl JungAttribution and context are revised when stronger evidence appears. Corrections are welcome through the editorial page.
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