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Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears. -- Don't answer!
 
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
 
Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.
 
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
 
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
 
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
 
If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.
 
Script analysis is then the answer to the problem of human destiny, and tells us (alas!) that our fates are predetermined for the most part, and that free will in this respect is for most people an illusion.
 
From the cradle to the grave, each individual pays for the sin of not being God.
 
We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.
 
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
 
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
 
I have nothing against God, it’s his fan club that scares me.
 
I learned how to dig a hole in the ground and bury myself so the fire would burn over me. Never had to use it since, but I'm ready.
 
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
 
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
 
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
 
What we need now is the description of the “describer” or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
 
Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
 
I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'.
 
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