Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.