It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.