To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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 world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.