The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.