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.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?