Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.