The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.