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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.