The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

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

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.