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To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."
When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.
A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.
Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.
Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.