We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols.….

The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would ra….

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend him….

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life..

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousn….

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology..

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wis….

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjectiv….

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real..

There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful….

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life..

Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His god….

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents ….

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life..

The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exp….

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of crazi….

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful..

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods an….

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who….

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewh….

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