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.
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Only the wounded physician heals.
The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.
Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.