Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.