What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

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