Invited or not, God is present.

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.

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.