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

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.