What afflicts the adult is not to much the illusion of hope as, no doubt among other things, the grotesque illusion of looking down from some supposedly higher vantage-point, free from illusion, upon the illusions of the young. (p. 89)

What characterizes despair is just this - that it is ignorant of being despair. (p. 75)

In spiritual terms the human being does not arrive over the years and as a matter of course at anything. No idea could be more directly opposed to spirit. (p. …

What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. (p. 65)