Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.