In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.