Quotes on Memories Dreams Reflections

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

The sure path can only lead to death.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.