Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul