The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses