Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.