It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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.

What we lack is intensity of life.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.