Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.