How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.