Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

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

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.