I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

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.