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| 3a1aa36 | Emma laughed, even though she wanted to cry and scream and run away all at the same time. Jake put his arms around her, and she felt calmer. He has a mellowness that rubs off on people, Emma has noticed. But it's not just being mellow. There is something kind about him. He knows when people need him, she thinks. He knows that she needs him. | Thomas Fahy | ||
| a5047ef | Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you can act where real measurable injustice exists. A lot of academic talk just immobilizes the oppressed and maintains oppressors in their positions of power." | power talk-is-cheap | Joy Kogawa | |
| f89642a | I have a rating system I apply to all people. Mao Zedong might have a Meow Factor of four, but I like to keep my Meow Factor as close to zero as I can. This system is not to be confused with my HV methodology, where I assign myself a Hooray Value of five. | Jarod Kintz | ||
| da99dd9 | Since the very beginning of the Communist regime, I had carefully studied books on Marxism and pronouncements by Chinese Communist Party leaders. It seemed to me that socialism in China was still very much an experiment nad had no fixed course of development for the country had yet been decided upon. This, I thought, was why the government's policy was always changing, like a pendulum swinging from left to right and back again. When things .. | Nien Cheng | ||
| 64dba2f | It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 0b4d6e0 | Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone" | C.G. Jung | ||
| d567d55 | To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light. | psychology | C.G. Jung | |
| 2eb34ef | The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 77fe7d9 | It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine. | C.G. Jung | ||
| d30d1ea | For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 9d5f9aa | Everything psychic is pregnant with the future. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 49ac1d5 | Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 1a8f229 | you are boys, your God is a woman. If you are women, your God is a boy. If you are men, your God is a maiden. The God is where you are not. So: it is wise that one has a God; this serves for your perfection. A maiden is the pregnant future. A boy is the engendering future. A woman is: having given birth. A man is: having engendered. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 7941611 | The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself. | mental-health philosophy politics psychology state system the-self truth welfare | C.G. Jung | |
| 94a744f | Even the most carefully defined philosophical or mathematical concept, which we are sure does not contain more than we have put into it, is nevertheless more than we assume. It is a psychic event and as such partly unknowable. The very numbers you use in counting are more than you take them to be. They are at the same time mythological elements (for the Pythagoreans, they were even divine); but you are certainly unaware of this when you use.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 3d78177 | Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of i.. | bombast grandiosity neologisms paracelsus | C.G. Jung | |
| 18a5a7f | The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 4b32a5f | the spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child. This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child | C.G. Jung | ||
| 571bcfb | Consciousness is a precondition of being. | C.G. Jung | ||
| ff139d8 | Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People | C.G. Jung | ||
| 44839c3 | The experiences of BPM I typically have strong mystical overtones; they feel sacred or holy. More precise, perhaps, would be the term numinous, which C.G. Jung used to avoid religious jargon. When we have experiences of this kind, we feel that we have encountered dimnensions of reality that belong to a superior order. | Stanislav Grof | ||
| 54f468b | Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 82322e0 | The more civilized, the more conscious and complicated a man is, the less he is able to follow his instincts. His complicated living conditions and the influence of his environment are so strong that they drown the quiet voice of nature. Opinions, beliefs, theories, and collective tendencies appear in its stead and back up all the aberrations of the conscious mind. Deliberate attention should then be given to the unconscious so that the com.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 7461a8d | They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers. | muteness-memories myth reflections | C. G. Jung | |
| 3250144 | Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 046bc6a | Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a crisis. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 2e9de1b | And just as the typical neurotic is unconscious of his shadow side, so the normal individual, like the neurotic, sees his shadow in his neighbour or in the man beyond the great divide. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 01c9c2f | I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small concern of the world, and my ideas - a subjective confession. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 4e8ef7a | Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use. | C.G. Jung | ||
| e3912f0 | This formulation will not please the mass man or the collective believer. For the former the policy of the State is the supreme principle of thought and action. Indeed, this was the purpose for which he was enlightened, and accordingly the mass man grants the individual a right to exist only in so far as he is a function of the State. The believer, on the other hand, while admitting that the State has a moral and factual claim on him, confe.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 434b9f1 | Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment. | C.G. Jung | ||
| b46adcc | there is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviour. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 37f3665 | To cherish secrets and to restrain emotions are psychic misdemeanours for which nature finally visits us with sickness--that is, when we do these things in private. But when they are done in communion with others they satisfy nature and may even count as useful virtues. It is only restraint practised in and for oneself that is unwholesome. It is as if man had an inalienable right to behold all that is dark, imperfect, stupid and guilty in h.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 845f7f3 | It is the growth of consciousness which we must thank for the existence of problems; they are the dubious gift of civilization. It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 74e189c | Self-will means believing that you alone have all the answers. Letting go of self-will means becoming willing to hold still, be open, and wait for guidance for yourself. It means learning to let go of fear (all of the "what ifs") and despair (all of the "if onlys") and replacing them with positive thoughts and statements about your life." | Robin Norwood | ||
| 501908e | Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 847530f | Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| f9c8047 | I haven't sold my soul yet--well, maybe a couple bars of rhythm and blues here and there, | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 65b73a6 | Today the tower's flock, the usual birds, flew in a kind of scatter pattern, their paths intricately chaotic, the bunch parting and interweaving like boiling pasta under a pot's lifted lid. It appeared someone had given the birds new instructions, had whispered that there was something to avoid, or someone to fool. I once heard Perkus Tooth say that he'd woken that morning having dreamed an enigmatic sentence: "Paranoia is a flower in the b.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| f779597 | I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| e78acb8 | Terms swarm up to tempt me in the course of this description: etc. These guessing words I find junked in my brain in deranged juxtaposition, like files randomly stuffed into cabinets by a dispirited secretary with no notion of what, if anything, might ever be usefully retrieved. Often all language seems this way: a monstrous compendium of embedded histories I'm helpless to understand. I employ it the way a dog drives a car, without graspi.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| a93d676 | All Thinking is Wishful. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 68429cb | The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained and superbly useless. Reading any one of them doesn't get you anywhere particularly meaningful; you haven't arrived or graduated; you've just gone and done something that passed the time. It's like taking a long walk with a friend who's got a lot to say. There's not cumulative purpose to it - it's just an excelle.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| b8167d0 | Everything funny in a not-funny-at-all kind of way. Sarcasm as something you practiced like karate. Later concealing your mute fury when nobody fed you the opening lines. | Jonathan Lethem |