"Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."
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"The creative mind plays with the object it loves."
"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."
"Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience."
"There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum."
"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth."
"The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego."
"When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity."
"Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin."
"Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious"
"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us."
"The greatest sin is to be unconscious."
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
"I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man."
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."
"Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse."
"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky"
"Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything."