No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
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.
I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
Dawn is born at midnight.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
Invited or not, God is present.
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.
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