His energy comes from envy. The less a man is in touch with his true talents and abilities, the more he will envy others. If we envy a lot, we are denying our own realistic greatness, our own Divine Child. What we need to do, then, is to get in touch with our own specialness, our own beauty, and our own creativity. Envy blocks creativity.

He began to stop experiencing his mother as the Great Mother and began to be able to relieve her, and all other women, from carrying so heavy a burden as God-likeness for him.

Ours is an age of envy, in which laziness and self-involvement are the rule. Anyone who tries to shine, who dares to stand above the crowd, is dragged back down by his lackluster and self-appointed “peers.”

the definition of normal is “average.”

Patriarchy is the expression of the immature masculine.

The characteristics of the Warrior in his fullness amount to a total way of life, what the samurai called a do (pronounced “dough”).

A man under the guidance of the Warrior knows how few his days are. Rather than depressing him, this awareness leads him to an outpouring of life-force and to an intense experience of his life that is unknown to others.

This is the energy form that seeks the fall of great men, that delights in the destruction of a man of importance. But the Trickster does not want to replace the man who has fallen. He does not want to take up that man’s responsibilities. In fact, he doesn’t want any responsibilities. He wants to do just enough to wreck things for others.

If we don’t feel our real specialness, we will come under the power of the Trickster, the “Know-It-All,” and deflate others’ sense of their specialness, even when such deflation is not called for. The Know-It-All Trickster has no heroes, because to have heroes is to admire others. We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness,