Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.