There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.