It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.