Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?