Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

Magic is the science of the jungle.

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.