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.

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

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

Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.

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.

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

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.