The whole point of Jesus’s life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul...
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
If you want to understand the jungle, you can’t be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You’ve got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.