People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

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.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.