Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.