The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

Einstein, Jung and Synchronicity

25 February, 1953

Dear Dr. Selig:

Professor Einstein was my guest on several occasions at dinner.

These were the very early days when Einstein was still developing his first theory of relativity, and it was he who started me thinking about a possible relativity of time as well as space, and their psychic conditionality.

It was above all the simplicity and directness of his genius as a thinker that impressed me mightily and exerted a lasting influence on my own intellectual work.

I am not gifted in mathematics and I went fourteen feet into the floor and felt quite small…

More than 30 years later the stimulus led to my relationship with the (quantum) physicist Wolfgang Pauli and my thesis of synchronicity.

C.G. Jung

Letters, Vol. 2

Pages 108-109