It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

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.