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

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.