A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.