Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

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

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.