How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.