The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.