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.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

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

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]