372 quotes found
“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”
“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”
“...suffering is not a problem that can be solved therapeutically; it is not a matter of emotional conflict. Psychologists and psychotherapists deal usefully with human suffering by working on the c...”
“As the theologian Alan Jones has said:One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases...”
“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”
“The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.”
“Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind of cost, a kind more subtle, pervasive, and continuing, a kind that conditions in a thousand way...”
“Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take outmore enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.”
“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.”
“The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.”
“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? Wha...”
“But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.”
“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
