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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy.
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.