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

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived