We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.