Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
God enters through the wound.
We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.
Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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.
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
