The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.