“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”

“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”