"Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers which cannot be given, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers." Read about the shadow and evil in “The Companion Guide to The Golden Bough, A Fairytale Ballet for Children.”

"More endurance is required than intelligence."

"One is always making the mistake of not counting on miracles."

"Have faith in the irrational. Give yourself with full love to the situation as long as it is there."

"Trust is the question, love is the solution."

“It is the heart that sends forth the spirit-nourishing ‘central’ wisdom of feeling, not the ‘upper’ wisdom of the head… This feminine-maternal wisdom is no abstract, disinterested knowledge, but a wisdom of loving participation.”

“Bonds with other people are produced by the Self and these relations are very exactly regulated as to distance and closeness. One might describe this as the social function of the Self. Each person gathers around him his own ‘soul family’, a group of people not created by accident or by mere egoistic motivation but rather through a deeper, more essential spiritual interest or concern: reciprocal individuation. In this world created by the Self we meet all those many to whom we belong, whose hearts we touch; here there is no distance, but immediate presence. There exists no individuation process in any one individual that does not at the same time produce this relatedness to one’s fellowmen.”

“Other people are established inalienably in my memories only if their names were entered in the scrolls of my destiny from the beginning, so that encountering them was at the same time a kind of recollection.”

“In this world created by the Self we meet all those to whom we belong, whose lives we touch.”

“One is always making the mistake of not counting on miracles.”

“Have faith in the irrational. Give yourself with full love to the situation as long as it is there.”

“A depression is really meant to reconnect one with the divine principle. The hermits went voluntarily into a depression and introverted with it, which meant not knowing anything anymore and being quite stranded. In such a condition the depressing thoughts bring the divine bread, which explains why the raven has a strange double aspect in mythology. Rational consciousness needs to be dimmed by a depression in order that the new light may be found with new creative possibilities.”

“Soon dear children this fairytale will draw to a close. Perhaps, when our own story is over, our lessons learned, we, like the little girl, will understand that the bough which has sheltered us is compassion itself. And, if we do the work that has been given to us to do with kindness and passion, then something immortal is imprinted on our common life and on our own soul. If we have loved and nurtured the golden bird in our own heart and in the hearts of others, then the golden bird, the creative spirit within, dances on.”