"Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think."

"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."

"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"The introverted attitude is characterized by detachment and by enjoyment of solitude and privacy."

"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"Emily Dickinson did not give up the world but neither could she find I herself in the world, so she retired from it."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"There is a power in loneliness, a purity, self-immersion, and depth which is unlike any other experience."

"MY LIFE, more than that of anyone I know, has been spent in solitude and wandering. Why this is true, or how it happened, I cannot say."

"Hamlet is so familiar to us because he knows, really knows, that he is his own worst problem."

"Nietzsche once said that before the path can be followed, one must first have found the lantern."

"Sleep — real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby."

"Being visible is a basic biological risk; being invisible is a basic biological defence. We all employ some form of camouflage."

"There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves."

"Our era of technology has not emphasized reading and study as virtues."

"One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people."

"It may well be an error to think that he who give voice to the multitude’s sorrow must himself always be victim to great personal despair."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

"The "change of life" is .. the urge and possibility for further spiritual and psychic development."

"Privacy and inwardness are perhaps the strongest means of individualization."