Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.