"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me. This favorite wish was a pretty one, — a refuge."

" I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow."

"Sport presents three main elements: the spectacle, the competition, and the personalities of the gladiators."

'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."

"Thus it was not long before I began to see the world as long-voyage sailors must always have seen it."

"We can count these stars, and yet we cannot believe that we exist as far as they are concerned."

"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."

"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."

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

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"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."

"Emily Dickinson did not give up the world but neither could she find I herself in the world, so she retired from it."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"There is a power in loneliness, a purity, self-immersion, and depth which is unlike any other experience."

"MY LIFE, more than that of anyone I know, has been spent in solitude and wandering. Why this is true, or how it happened, I cannot say."

"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."

"There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves."