Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.