Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

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

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

The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.