Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.