Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Invited or not, God is present.
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
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