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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.