Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.