The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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