We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.