Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.