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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.
I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire
Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.
The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.