Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
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.
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.
You always become the thing you fight the most.
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.
Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
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.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
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.
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