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"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice."
"To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock."
"I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are."
"We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live."
"It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing."
"The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."
"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results."
"The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering."
"The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads."
"It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom."
"The greater the tension, the greater is the potential."
"Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable"
"Modern man is sick because he is not whole."
"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."
"Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force"
"If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping."
"Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books."
"Called or not, God is always there."
"The longing for light is the longing for consciousness."
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."