Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.