As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.