Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

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

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

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