A girl changes into a woman on her own, with the bodily developments marking the change; old women tell her stories and chants, and do celebrations.

Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren’t.

Enjoying ritual space, then, is an intimate and imaginative act, and enjoying such space resembles being enclosed in a bowl or in a basket.

“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.

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

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

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.

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.