Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.