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

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

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.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

What you resist persist.