The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.