In Its Deepest Being

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and
brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest
being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If Only I Could Remember

At sixty-five I can do whatever I did when I was thirty-five,
if only I could remember what those things were.

Billy Crystal

No Irritable Reaching

Let's imagine Robert Johnson is living in a tent in a desert and he becomes thirsty. He waits until a spring comes up through the sand just in front of his chair. That's the kind of person he is. There is no irritable reaching for an answer, a resolution, a career, the next step.

Robert Bly

Interior Woman

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Robert Johnson