The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.