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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.
I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.
Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
Flow is letting nothing obstruct the breath. Practice flow through a complete exhale in every way in your being.
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.