My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.