The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."