The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Dawn is born at midnight.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.