In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.