My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

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.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.