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.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

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

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.