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

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

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

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

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

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

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

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

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

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

Some things come with their own punishments.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.