The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.