The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.