Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.