By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?