Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
God enters through the wound.
Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.
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