It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.