We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.