I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.