The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

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