That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.