Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.