Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!
St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.