The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

For many years of my life I thought one came down with a mood just as one comes down with a cold. But slowly I learned that moods are a product of purposeful unconsciousness and can be rectified by the very consciousness one worked so hard to evade.

Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.