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.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.