Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I do not believe...I know.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.