The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

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