The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.