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

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.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.