As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

Magic is the science of the jungle.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.