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.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!