There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.