I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego. … I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. … I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate. 曼荼罗是一个原型图像,它的出现被证实贯穿了整个时代。它象征着自我的完整。这个圆形图像代表了精神领域的整体性,或者用神话的术语来说,代表了人类的神性化身。