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 ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

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

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.