Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

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

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.