Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

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

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.