"The more a man lays stress on false possession,
and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is
his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy
and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have
a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis,
we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do
not embody that, life is wasted. In our relationships to other men, too, the
crucial question is whether an element of boundlessness is expressed in the
relationship.
The feeling for the infinite, however, can be
attained only if we are bounded to the utmost. The greatest limitation for man
is the "self" ; it is manifested in the experience : "I am only that!" Only consciousness of
our narrow confinement in the self forms the link to the limitlessness of the
unconscious. In such awareness we experience ourselves concurrently as limited
and eternal, as both the one and the other. In knowing ourselves to be unique
in our personal combination - that is, ultimately limited - we possess also the
capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!"
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