Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.