Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.