Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: reality perception mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email