“In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”

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.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Freedom is difficult things.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.

We discover ourselves through others.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

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.

If you are afraid of darkness, you are afraid of your own soul.

I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it’s not so bad.

Pain is as dark as it is deep. But just like anything that receives enough light, it too will fade over time and become something, a little less ominous, and a little more hopeful.

Hope begins in the dark.

Light is much more than the absence of darkness. And you, my love, are much more than the absence of him.

The touch of your pale skin illuminates my darkness.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.