"The tempo of America is being taken as a norm to which life should be directed."

In a manner of speaking, boredom is your window on time. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

"It must always be remembered that the isolation of the self, in a deliberately lonely life, need not imply living in actual solitude."

"I have been forcibly struck with what may be called solitude in the lives of these great men."

"L'homme dit « moderne » est de tout temps solitaire."

"Cerebrotonia communes with itself, and is mentally self-sufficient. It seems to live a mentally intensive (rather than extensive) life."

"Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness."

"The sea is like music; it has all the dreams of the soul within itself and sounds them over."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

"The introverted attitude is characterized by detachment and by enjoyment of solitude and privacy."

"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"Hamlet is so familiar to us because he knows, really knows, that he is his own worst problem."

"Nietzsche once said that before the path can be followed, one must first have found the lantern."

"Sleep — real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby."

"Being visible is a basic biological risk; being invisible is a basic biological defence. We all employ some form of camouflage."

"The "change of life" is .. the urge and possibility for further spiritual and psychic development."

"Il y a autant de diverses espèces d’hommes qu’il y a de diverses espèces d’animaux."

"This particular animal, the human, is the most complex and needs the longest length of protection before it is able to manage on its own."

"Pour ces êtres atteints d’ « insécurité ontologique », il faut tâcher de puiser en soi-même le moyen d’être authentiquement."

"I don't know how to explain who I am or why I am writing to you except to say that I have just read your book, On Becoming a Person, ..."

"I would no longer be terming it a "state of empathy," because I believe it to be a process, rather than a state."

"To me it is meaningful to say that the substratum of all motivation is the organismic tendency toward fulfillment."

People with a soulful psychological temperament are receptive, reflective, often deliberate and slow.