For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.