How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.