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

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?