There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.