Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.