When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.