Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

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