Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

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