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

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.