The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.