Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.