Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.