If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

All neurotics seek the religious

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.