The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.