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

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief