When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us