The magus doesn’t try to overcome nature but to remain deeply in tune with it. To deal with the soul magically rather than heroically requires extreme sympathy with all that is taking place.

You can trust them [emotions and fantasies], not to arrange life the way you want it, but to arrange the elements of your soul in a way that will offer rich life in the future.

The experience of beauty is not just one of pleasantness but of the power of an image to give order and to clarify your situation.

It helps to know who is living through you at any given moment. The less you know about it, the more it dominates and keeps you from other adventures.

She separated herself from life so that she could finally heal her soul. We have seen this theme over and over, how the dark night is fulfilled in some form of withdrawal from active life.