Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.