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

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.