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

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

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 dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.