The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.