“The “redemption” — or, to put it in modern terms, the becoming a Self — is actually something that one cannot win simply through diligent imagining nor through deeply burrowing introversion. Whenever the Self comes into being, things happen outside and inside at the same time; not only the person, but also his life situation — everything — changes.

The Dionysian holy ghost descends not only on the heads, or at best the hearts, of human beings; he moves in nature and even in lifeless things; he is psychic reality, which is experienced simultaneously both without and within.”