If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.