Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself—out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

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.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly — if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over — something almost always comes out of it.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I”

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment

People cannot stand too much Reality.