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

“Why are there more and more naïve men in the world?” Whether the fathers are actually darker than they were in the past, they are perceived so, and a son assigns himself the task of redeeming the dark father.

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

We need people to remind men again and again how difficult it is to become a conscious father, and people to remind women how difficult it is to be a conscious mother.

where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community.

the love unit most damaged by the Industrial Revolution has been the father-son bond.

Display embodies beauty and expressiveness often united with a zany grace.

“Men have been depressed now for many years in their male and resplendent selves, depressed into dejection and almost abjection.

If we choose “the one precious thing”—the object of our desire—then, according to the alchemists, the inner King in us that has been asleep for so many years wakes up.