I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.