Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

The blues is a low down achin' chill.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything