We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

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

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.