One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. —Carl Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With love, even the rocks will open. —Hafiz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be wary of any enterprise that requires new clothes. —Baba Hari Dass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one. —Saul Bellow Dangling Man More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Theories of a wholly good or wholly malevolent world strike him as foolish. Of those who believe in a wholly good world he says that they do not understand depravity. As for pessimists, the question he asks of them is, "Is that all they see, such people?" For him, the world is both, and therefore it is neither. Merely to make a judgment of that kind is, to representatives of either position, a satisfaction. Whereas, to him, judgment is second to wonder, to speculation on men, drugged and clear, jealous, ambitious, good, tempted, curious, each in his own time and with his customs and motives, and bearing the imprint of strangeness in the world. In a sense, everything is good because it exists. Or, good or not good, it exists, it is ineffable, and, for that reason, marvelous. —Alfred Adler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hammer is the abstraction of each one of its hammerings. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By its novelty, a poetic image sets in motion the entire linguistic mechanism. The poetic image places us at the origin of the speaking being. —Edith Hamilton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. —Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed More about this quote Tags: mind beauty perfection reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect. —Seth Seth Speaks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Through the anima and the animus, so-called, present personalities are able to draw upon the knowledge and intuitions and background that was derived from past existences as the opposite sex. On some occasions, for example, the woman may go overboard and exaggerate female characteristics, in which case the animus or male within comes to her aid, bringing through dream experiences an onrush of knowledge that will result in compensating male-like reactions . . . —Chinese poem More about this quote 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
When you keep people from doing things they are destined to do, they go crazy. —Ilona Andrews in White Hot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He smiled at me. It was the kind of smile that blazed a trail from your heart to your mind and popped into your head the next time you wondered why you put up with a man who made you want to punch things. —Ilona Andrews in White Hot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You find out who your real friends are when stuff like this happens. Turns out I didn't have any. —Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email