What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits. - Carl Jung

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle—well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.