Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

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

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

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

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

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.