Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who reme...
Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no nee...
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of i...
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
The deepest subjectivity is not personal.
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...
As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.
What door is opened into soul through our wounds.
Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
Miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,
Sometimes we act in order not to see.
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towar...