The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.