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.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
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.
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Invited or not, God is present.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
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.
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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