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

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.