That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.