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• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
• The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put…
• Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized…
• How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…
• We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
• Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance…
• We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams,…
• By seeing differently, we do differently
• I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of…
• Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but…
• Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
• Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

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