The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Love without attachment is light.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.