Healing only comes from what leads the patient beyondhimself and beyond his entanglements in the ego. (Alchemical Studies:397)

But it is the most squalid dreams that emphasize our blood kinship with the rest of mankind, and most effectively damp down the arrogance born of an atrophy of the instincts. Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths. (Civilization In Transition:310)

But in no circumstance may we anticipate that this meaning will fit in with any of our subjective expectations; for quite possibly, indeed very frequently, the dream is saying something surprisingly different from what we would expect. As a matter of fact, if the meaning we find in the dream happen to coincide with our expectations, that is a reason for suspicion; for as a rule the standpoint of the unconscious is complementary or compensatory to consciousness and thus unexpectedly “different”. (Psychology & Alchemy:48)

Life is a touchstone for the truth of the spirit. Spirit that drags a man away from life, seeking fulfillment only in itself, is a false spirit; though man too is to blame, since he can choose whether he will give himself up to this spirit or not. Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to life, and the possibility of its greatest development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing if it cannot live. (The Structure and the Dynamics of the Psyche:647)

Rationalism and superstition are complementary, it is a psychological rule that the brighter the light, the blacker the shadow; in other words, the more rationalistic we are in our conscious minds, the more alive becomes the spectral world of the unconscious. (Spuk:Irrgalube oder Wahrglaube?, F.Moser:forward, 10)

We have to learn to think in antimonies, constantly bearing in mind that every truth turns into an antimony if it is thought out to the end.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. (On the Psychology of the Unconscious:58)

Religion means dependence on and submission to the irrational facts of existence. (Civilization In Transition:505)

[origins of my interest in the opus of Carl Jung and Analytic Psychology]