Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.
We want to have certainties and no doubts – results and no experiments – without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
Summoned or not, the god will come.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance – almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.