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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem
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Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.
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metaphor
myth
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Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.
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venting
therapy
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you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.
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self-knowledge
self
soul
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Outside and inside, life and soul, appear as parallels in "case history" and "soul history." A case history is a biography of historical events in which one took part: family, school, work, illness, war, love. The soul history often neglects entirely some or many of these events, and spontaneously invents fictions and "inscapes" without major outer correlations. The biography of the soul concerns experience. It seems not to follow the one-w..
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miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,
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Our dreams recover what the world forgets.
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To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.
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Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.
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Sometimes we act in order not to see.
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Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it. A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does..
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This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black - archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by all-too-human prejudices of color.
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As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.
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Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.
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individuation
journey
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What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.
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It seems, as one becomes older, / That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence," wrote T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets, which meditates on time, age, and memory, goes on to say, "We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning."
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L.P. J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.
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myth
religion
glass-darkly
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Why do I prefer insurance to the invisible guarantees of existence?
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The deepest subjectivity is not personal.
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The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
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soul
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Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic of the sheep into the knowing, cunning, fearful awe of the shepherd.
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The willful amnesia afflicting the sciences in general contrasts sharply with the importance given to memory by the humanities. Literature, philosophy, politics, and the visual arts, including photography and filmmaking, feed on memory. Practitioners of the humanities need memory to deepen and refine their thinking.
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Longevity
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Asa cum sustine scoala de psihologie a lui J.J. Gibson de la Universitatea Cornell, lumea ofera camin si protectie, ingrijire si satisfactie, aventura si joc. Lumea e alcatuita mai putin din substantive si mai mult din verbe. Nu e locuita doar de obiecte si lucruri, ci si de oportunitati utile, jucause si interesante. Cintezoiul nu vede o ramura, ci o oportunitate de-a se odihni; pisica nu vede ceea ce noi numim o cutie goala, ci un loc sig..
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Intr-o societate si o epoca in care ciudatii sunt aruncati in adaposturi, adusi la serenitate pe baza de serotonina si recuperati de catre grup din individualismul lor prea intens si ambitios, cand ce e prea diferit este marginalizat, atunci devine extrem de important pentru constienta natiunii sa afirme activ extraordinarul. Daca eminenta depinde de destin, iar destinul de caracter, atunci putem inversa raportul dintre cele trei notiuni: p..
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