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

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

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

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

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.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.