Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

All neurotics seek the religious

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.