“Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.”

“Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination”

“Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.”

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

“When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.”

“But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.”

“The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.”