It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.
But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.
Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
For better to come, good must stand aside.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.
Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .
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