No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

I don't believe. I know.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

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

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .