"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."

"Sheer misery makes one profound. — But here there are no problems, mere existence needs no justification, thinking becomes a game."

"I lie and gaze into the evening skv. which for hours has been slowly covering itself with small, silent, tangled clouds."

"There is a kind of rainy weather that is refreshing and cheerful. Today's weather is not."

"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."

"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves."

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

"You are suffering to-day from the poetry which fills your being and has no outlet. This sorrow is terrible, but so beautiful !"

"It has just been raining. Nature is fresh and radiant ; the earth seems to taste with rapture the water which brings it life."

Dearest, much honored master, when one has a very dark childhood behind one, in which the everyday resembles walking in dank cold streets...