To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

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

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

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.