Active Imagination is to the Self what therapeutic processing is to the ego. Images are to the Self what thoughts are to the mind.

The starting point of our love for others is our sane and fearless love of ourselves.

Against all odds, with no guarantee of being loved in return, out of the hate and hurt so often handed us, in the face of the meaningless suffering history has let us see, we go on loving. We make a door of every gaping hole.

A psychologically and spiritually conscious person acts from a consistent—though always evolving—sense of values. To value is to esteem the worth of something, to declare that it has meaning for us.

Maintain a bottom line: a limit to how many times you allow someone to say no, lie, disappoint, or betray you before you will admit the painful reality and move on to mutual work or separate tables. This includes confronting addiction to exciting but futureless relationships in which you keep looking for more where there is only less, keep looking

The fear of revealing the True Self is disguised in these words: “If people really knew me, they would not like me.” We can change that sentence to read: “I am free enough to want everything I say and do to reveal me as I am. I love being seen as I am.”

Until I see another’s behavior with compassion, I have not understood it.

“My destiny is to create more consciousness. The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being,” Jung wrote toward the end of his life.

You can be informed by others’ behavior rather than affected by it. You can observe the behavior of others without having to react to it or to be controlled by it. You operate from your own repertory of responses that uphold you no matter what others do, say, or mean to you.