The perfect human being is uninteresting.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

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.

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)

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.