The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.