Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.