Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

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

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.