The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

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

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.