When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

One must be able to let things happen.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.