Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.