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

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.