"...in our day of instantaneous communication by electronics...more patients than ever have never experienced anyone who would genuinely listen with only his or her welfare in mind." (p.98)
"The loneliness is one expression of our rootlessness. Many people in our day, separated from tradition and often cast out by society, are alone with no myths to guide them, no unquestioned rites to welcome them into community, no sacraments to initiate them into the holy - and s there is rarely anything holy."
"A world if interpersonal relationship is...characterized by consistency and has within it...persons who will accept ...rejection without withdrawing,...anger without retaliation, and steadily value [you] for [your] own worth." (p.193)
"Lack of care represents original sin, one's incapacity to sense and to communicate with the heart of another..." (p. 135)
"Myths challenge us to confront our destiny, our death, our love, our joy." (p. 196)
"We awake after a sleep of many centuries to find ourselves in a new and irrefutable sense in the myth of humankind. We find ourselves in a new world community; we cannot destroy the parts without destroying the whole. In this bright loveliness we know now that we are truly sisters and brothers, at last in the same family." (p. 302)
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