Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.