If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.