Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.