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

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.