We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us