The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

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

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.