1. “Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.”
2. “The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.”
3. “The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.”
4. “A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.”
5. “We serve the world by finding out what feed us, and having been fed, then share our gifts with others.”
6. “The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.”
7. “The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”
8. “Fear of our own depths is the enemy.”
9. “In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.”
10. “We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.”
11. “Death is the only way of dying; living partially, living feafully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.”
12. “Achieving a more conscious participation in a richer story proves a great gift after all.”
13. “Man has only his two feet to stand on, his own human trinity to see him through: Reason, Courage and Grace. And the first plus the second equals the third.”
14. “Life hurts and sometimes it hurts a great deal. We are extraordinarily flexible, possess genetic programming to survive, even prevail, and we gain resilience as we age, and yet we still hurt easily.”
15. “The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.”
16. “It is very easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.”
17.The child’s experience of the mother is internalized as a complex: an emotionally charged cluster of energy beyond the control of the ego.”
18. “Going through means that we have to experience what we not wish to experience, for to flee it is even worse.”
19. “Whatever shaky throne we purchased at the price of numerous adjustments and backroom deals is our presumptive treasure and our sanctum.”
20. “Be kind, Everyone you meet has a very large problem.”
