"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."

"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves."

"Our era of technology has not emphasized reading and study as virtues."

"You are suffering to-day from the poetry which fills your being and has no outlet. This sorrow is terrible, but so beautiful !"

"It has just been raining. Nature is fresh and radiant ; the earth seems to taste with rapture the water which brings it life."

Dearest, much honored master, when one has a very dark childhood behind one, in which the everyday resembles walking in dank cold streets...

"At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind."

"I wake before dawn, and then, much as I desire sleep, I cannot have it. I am now the prey of anything but sleep, anything real or unreal...

"One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people."

" The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert."

"It may well be an error to think that he who give voice to the multitude’s sorrow must himself always be victim to great personal despair."

"’Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

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

"Privacy and inwardness are perhaps the strongest means of individualization."

"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."