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

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

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.