Jung: Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them…
C.G. Jung, on Picking up Stones
Perhaps crystals and stones are especially as symbols of the Self because of the “just-so-ness” of their nature.
Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, without knowing why they do this. It is as if the stones held a living mystery that fascinates them.
Men have collected stones since the beginning of time and have apparently assumed that certain ones were the containers of the life-force with all its mystery.
Man and his Symbols