The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

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

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

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.