The true leader is always led.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.