ROBERT A. JOHNSON

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

History seems to be so clumsy.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

I been studyin' the rain and I'm 'on drive my blues away.

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind.