We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.