Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1

The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.

"Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of the collective unconscious psychic processes..." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.'

"[For each of us] there is a reality, a fit place, and congenial duties." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from 'Spiritual Laws' in Essays: First Series.

"The imagination is... a vehicle of relationship to what lies on the other side of imagination — autonomous psyche..." ~ D. Stephenson Bond in 'Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life.'

"If you are searching, you must not stop until you find. When you find, however, you will become troubled." ~ Gospel of Thomas, translated by Lynn Bauman.

“The life of the unconscious goes on and continually produces problematical situations...There is no change that is unconditionally valid over a long period of time. Life has always to be tackled anew." ~ C.G. Jung, 'The Transcendent Function' in Collected Works, vol. 8.