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To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character
I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.