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

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.