The Twisted side of the Great Mother doesn’t want the boy to grow up because if he does he will pass out of her realm.

Contemporary business life allows competitive relationships only, in which the major emotions are anxiety, tension, loneliness, rivalry, and fear.

The Destructive Father does not give energy to those in his family but draws it out of them into some black hole he shelters in himself. He draws it out steadily, as the great tyrants we know of draw it from their citizens.

The burning of the Wild Man preceded the burning of the witches by several centuries, and it proceeded from the same fear and anger.

that accepting an initiatory task is more important than succeeding or failing at it.

choose what you want and then pay for it.

Having no soul union with other men can be the most damaging wound of all.

Shame, it is said, is the sense that you are an utterly inadequate person on this planet, and probably nothing can be done about it. Guilt is the sense that you have done one thing wrong, and you can atone for it.

When a person chooses the one thing most precious, it is a serious act. Choosing ends well, but not for the rejected divinities.