“We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

“I’m the one who has to die when it’s time for me to die, so why don’t you let me live my life the way I want to.”

 - Jimi Hendrix

 

"…The cure of the shadow is a problem of love. How far can our love extend to the broken and ruined parts of ourselves, the disgusting and perverse? How much charity and compassion have we for our own weakness and sickness? How far can we build an inner society on the principle of love, allowing a place for everyone?" 

-James Hillman, Insearch: Psychology and Religion, 1967

 
 

"Buried in the deepest stratum of the unconscious, at the wellspring of [a person's] existence, lies an immense psychological force. In pure form, it is experienced as a longing...It begins, perhaps, with the infant's amazing discovery that the breast which brings it comfort is not a part of itself, but actually belongs to another, sentient, being. From that moment, longing drives the human organism to relate to, to comprehend, in the deepest sense to "love," that which lies beyond her or him. Any experience of this longing, either in oneself or others, is cause for delight."
-Robert C. Murphy Jr, Psychotherapy based on human longing, 1960