“Everything that irritates
us about others can
lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Loneliness does not come
from having no people about
one but from being unable to communicate the things that
seem important to oneself,
or from holding certain views which others find
inadmissible.”
“Knowing your
own darkness
is the best
method
for dealing
with the
darknesses
of other people.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between
sense and nonsense,
not between
right and wrong.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
“As a child I felt
myself to be alone,
and I am still,
because I know
things and must
hint at things which
others apparently
know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“People will do anything,
no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.”
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
... become enlightened by...
making the darkness conscious
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know
what a thing is, it is at least an
increase in knowledge if he
knows what it is not. ”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
“We cannot change
anything unless we
accept it.”
“The acceptance
of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that
I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues.
What I do unto the least of
my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all
the beggars, the most impudent
of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of
my own kindness -- that I
myself am the enemy who must
be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude
is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.”
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power,
and where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”.
So, I finally put together my new identity as ShammyKnees. Don't ask what the name is. Anyway, thanks for the excellent Merton and Jung.
ReplyDeleteThe one staring at me concerns love and power, and I have never been able to accept that as a true dichotomy or even an antinomy. I understand what it is saying, but as an economist I see power differently.
Power over others is false power, to put it bluntly. Because the potential for people to be productive in cooperation is so great, the person who insists on power over others not only diminishes their capacity but also thereby diminishes his own benefit.