I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

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

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

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