Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

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