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A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
5% of women have true multiple orgasms only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.
The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?
Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.