The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

All neurotics seek the religious

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.