Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.