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

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.