Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.