“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.”

“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critic...”

“The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.”

“What door is opened into soul through our wounds.”

“Is that which science calls the psyche not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowin...”

“Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.”

“I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.”

“The Soul is attached to the world, and her Love contains the passion, beauty, and awe that make life worth living.”

“The true energy of Love confidently and unwaveringly burns away all sediment that clings to story while dropping us hard into the naked and raw hum of Right Now.”

“Once you know your Soul, you are never again subject to give your authority away. You own your truth directly and with certainty.”