It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...
Thank God I’m not a Jungian.
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I’d never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.
Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear are the sources of the greatest wisdom.
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.
St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.