The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.
Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.
Everyone can afford to give away a smile.
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
No concept is a carrier of life.
I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
You always become the thing you fight the most.
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.
We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.
We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.
Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.