Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
Invited or not, God is present.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
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