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| eb3e5c8 | At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things--but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 0f97e3e | When a person tries to obey the unconscious, he will often, as we have seen, be unable to do just as he pleases. But equally he will often be unable to do what other people want him to do. It often happens, for instance, that he must separate from his group-from his family, his partner, or other personal connections-in order to find himself. That is why it is sometimes said that attending to the unconscious makes people antisocial and egoce.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 20b478f | But when a thing is tangibly idiotic, you can be sure that it is very powerful, very dangerous. You see, when we call a thing stupid, we think that we undo it, that we have overcome it somehow. Of course nothing of the sort happens; we have simply made a statement that it is very important, have advertised it, and it appeals to everybody. People think, thank heaven, here is something we can understand, and they eat it. But if we say somethi.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 283e543 | In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 041c91f | But I was not my self, confronted with my thoughts. I should also rise up above my thoughts to my own self. My journey goes there, and that is why it leads away from men and events into solitude. Is it solitude, to be with oneself? Solitude is true only when the self is a desert.73 Should I also make a garden out of the desert? Should I people a desolate land? Should I open the airy magic garden of the wilderness? What leads me into the des.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 7c3120d | In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one with the other person is the only worthwhile goal of one's life.) | C.G. Jung | ||
| 46d7707 | Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being. | distinctiveness striving thinking | C.G. Jung | |
| 49ec1ca | Every concept in our conscious mind, in short, has its own psychic associations. While such associations may vary in intensity (according to relative importance of the concept to our whole personality, or according to the other ideas and even complexes to which it is associated in our unconscious), they are capable of changing the "normal" character of that concept. It may even become something quite different as it drifts below the level o.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| e71a2b3 | Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. ... These are called the shapeless shapes, Forms without form, Vague semblances. Go towards them, and you can see no front; Go after them, and you see no rear. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 35e4217 | they determine you without you understanding their language.53 One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight.54 The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth. Scholarliness belongs to the spirit of this time, but thi.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 8b19ac3 | The conflict between science and religion is in reality a misunderstanding of both. Scientific materialism has merely introduced a new hypostasis, and that is an intellectual sin. It has given another name to the supreme principle of reality and has assumed that this created a new thing and destroyed and old thing. Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 27d2fe3 | The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it. | freedom individualism philosophy politics psychology services society state the-self welfare | C.G. Jung | |
| 3a4c2ac | We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the 'sine qua non' of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 291e5fb | Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counterposition can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 8250bde | You did not seduce me. I came to you. If you cannot accept my strengths as well as my weaknesses, if you cannot take from me as well as give to me, you cannot love me. | Celeste De Blasis | ||
| 810b4c9 | Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer--Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even Charles Lindbergh--are rarely encountered now, and most of the others are never heard at all. So it is perhaps worth pausing for a moment to remember just some of the things that happened that summer: Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs. The Federal Reserve made the mistake that precipitated the stock market crash. A.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c568576 | Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self. | enduring grubby self | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 87543ba | It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area. | school | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 72bd669 | The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun-worn pier, and the humans had just gotten the news and taken a powder. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 64406d1 | Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit. The ones who couldn't read still couldn't, the teachers were teaching the same thing for the fifth time now and refusing to meet your eyes, some kids had been left back twice and were the size of janitors. The place was a ca.. | school | Jonathan Lethem | |
| c770c08 | What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee. | Alice Munro | ||
| 2fe3fdb | My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3e76c3e | She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood--that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3f5b030 | He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want? It was too polite, I said. | humor | Alice Munro | |
| 1694482 | Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle-- | Alice Munro | ||
| 3d024cf | there were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away. | Alice Munro | ||
| 96a8343 | by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction. | James Clavell | ||
| c90ab5f | So sorry | James Clavell | ||
| fdf6dda | Many times Blackthorne had looked over his shoulder expecting her there, but she was never there and never would be and this did not disturb him. She was with him forever, and he knew he would love her in the good times and in the tragic times, even in the winter of his life. She was always on the edge of his dreams. | James Clavell | ||
| 2083d47 | This advice has been given often and more compellingly elsewhere, but my specific piece of wrong procedure back then was, incredibly, to browse through the thesaurus and note words that sounded cool, hip, or likely to produce an effect, usually that of making me look good, without then taking the trouble to go and find out in the dictionary what they meant | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 99bf874 | if you think you see no slaves in pennsylvania," replies capt. zhang, his face as smooth as suet, "why, look again. they are not all african, nor do some of them even yet know,--may never know,--that they are slaves. slavery is very old upon these shores,--there is no innocence upon the practice anywhere, neither among the indians nor the spanish nor in the behavior of the rest of christendom, if it come to that." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| fe8a0a4 | A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and tongue movement: "Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic." It repeated itself automatically and Stencil improved upon on it each time, placing emphasis on different words--"events "; "seem to be "; " logic"--pronouncing them differently, changing the "tone of voice" from sepulchral to jaunty: round.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 0ef92f4 | If there is any political moral to be found in this world," Stencil once wrote in his journal, "it is that we carry on the business of this century with an intolerable double vision. Right and Left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouses of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets by manipulated mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the fut.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| fbf4dc1 | San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5e8dcc3 | It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 7d93fb8 | Remember, God didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now,' he said, 'Let there be light.' His first act was to to what had been Nothing. Like God, you also have to always work with the light, make it do only what you want it to do. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3d53245 | Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came. "Where?" she asked. That shut him up." -- | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1bb7048 | decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power. | politics | Joseph E. Stiglitz | |
| 6a0ade0 | Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. | politics | Joseph E. Stiglitz | |
| 27ae9ca | Liz felt the loneliness of confiding something true in a person who didn't care. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 1ae4703 | As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, "Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?" | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 86ea19e | Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| bdb1ca5 | I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 77c4d40 | you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said. I looked at him. He said, "her punishment is being her," | growing-up past-and-present punishment | Curtis Sittenfeld |