The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.