“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.” ― Henry David Thoreau
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Carl Jung On Meeting Ourselves Time And Again
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” Carl Jung
Quote: Carl Jung On Dealing With His Own Shadow
“If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do […]
Quote: Aldo Leopold On Abusing The Land
“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” ― Aldo Leopold
Inspirational Quotes: G.I. Gurdjieff On Awakening
“Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.” ― G.I. Gurdjieff
Quote: Hermann Hesse on Phenomena
“I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.” ― Hermann Hesse,
Quote: Thoreau: I went to the woods..
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
Quote: The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung