The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Only the wounded physician heals.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.