"When a Taoist priest meditates on a mandala and gradually concentrates his libido on the center, what is the meaning of the center? The center of consciousness is the ego, but the center represented in the mandala is not identical with the ego. It is outside of consciousness, it is another center. The naive man projects it into space; he would say it is outside somewhere in the world. The aim of the exercise is to shift the guiding factor away from the ego to a non-ego center in the unconscious, and this is also the general aim of analytical procedure. ~"

- Carl Jung, On Dreams and the East, Page 38