Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.