“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Explore daily the will of God.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.