The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.