Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves