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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
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