The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine.
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.
Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.
Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
Error is just as important a condition of life’s progress as truth.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
Life is crazy and meaningful at once.