A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.