How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

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

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.