"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."

"This particular animal, the human, is the most complex and needs the longest length of protection before it is able to manage on its own."

"It is a curious thing that so many people only go into a bookshop when they happen to need some particular book."

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"Of the nature of the soul, though her true form be ever a theme of more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure."

" Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employments."

An old king in Shakespeare cautions: “Make no noise, make no noise, draw the curtains .... we’ll go to supper i’ the morning.”