Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.