There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum