Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

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

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.