Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.