Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.