The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.