Tuesday 13/04

Tuesday 13/04
Next in line: Carl Jung
-Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
-Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
-Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
-The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
-There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.
-A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
-Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
-In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
-Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
-Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
-Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
-Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
-The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
-The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
-The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
-We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
-Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.