A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.