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.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.