Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.