Clary sage serves to bring awareness within, allowing one to come from one’s deeper emotional and energetic core. In so doing, it has a softening effect that can help us dissolve any unnecessary hard protective structures we normally use in relating to others. It can also satisfy the yearning for the unknown within us, uncannily stirring up long-lost feelings and half-buried dreams. Inhalation is also generally useful as a settling, centering aid for meditation.
(Peter Holmes, Aromatica, vol. 1)