Nous savons qu'il advient dans nos vies des choses qui nous semblent totalement inconnues et totalement étrangères. De même que nous savons que nous ne fabriquons pas un rêve ou une idée, mais que l'un comme l'autre prennent naissance d'eux-mêmes en quelque sorte. Ce qui fond sur nous de cette façon, on peut dire que c'est un effet qui émane d'un mana, d'un démon, de Dieu, ou de l'inconscient. Les trois premières désignations possèdent le grand avantage d'embrasser et d'évoquer la qualité émotionnelle du numineux, tandis que la dernière - l'inconscient - est banale et par conséquent plus proche de la réalité. (p. 527-528)

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

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? Then, as a rule, the whole truth of Christianity is reversed: there is no more talk of love and long-suffering; we say to the brother within us, "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world; we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drew near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.

My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. Do you still know me? How long the separation lasted! Everything has become so different. And how did I find you? How strange my journey was! What words should I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.