A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.