The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Non foras ire, in interiore homine habitat veritas' (Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).