We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.