New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

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.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.