I Have Treated Many Hundreds Of Patients.

I Had Always Been Impressed By The Fact That There Are Surprisingly Many Individuals Who Never Use Their Minds If They Can Avoid It, And Yet Are Not Stupid, And An Equal Number Who Obviously Do Use Their Minds But In An Amazingly Stupid Way.

There Is, How­ever, A Strong Empir­i­cal Rea­son Why We Should Cul­ti­vate Thoughts That Can Never Be Proved. It Is That They Are Known To Be Use­ful. Man Pos­i­tively Needs Gen­eral Ideas & Con­vic­tions That Will Give A Mean­ing To His Life & Enable Him To Find A Place For Him­self In The Uni­verse. He Can Stand The Most Incred­i­ble Hard­ships When He Is Con­vinced That They Make Sense; He Is Crushed When On Top Of All His Mis­for­tunes, He Has To Admit That He Is Tak­ing Part In A ‘tale Told By An Idiot.’

It Will Seem As If You Were Making The Visions Banal — But Then You Need To Do That — Then You Are Freed From The Power Of Them Then When These Things Are In Some Precious Book You Can Go To The Book And Turn Over The Pages And For You It Will Be Your Church — Your Cathedral — The Silent Places Of Your Spirit Where You Will Find Renewal. If Anyone Tells You That It Is Morbid Or Neurotic And You Listen To Them — Then You Will Lose Your Soul — For In That Book Is Your Soul.

The Foundation Of All Mental Illness Is The Unwillingness To Experience Legitimate Suffering.

Just As Man As A Social Being, Cannot In The Long Run Exist Without A Tie To The Community, So The Individual Will Never Find The Real Justification For His Existence, And His Own Spiritual And Moral Autonomy, Anywhere Except In An Extramundane Principle Capable Of Relativizing The Overpowering Influence Of External Factors.