The person who views the world from the mountaintop does not see everything, but what he sees is significant.
Life as it appears to us is always a compromise between the soul's desire and the world's limitations.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it only binds more tightly.
The purpose of life is not happiness. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
The problem of human life is essentially psychological. It arises from the conflict between the conscious will and the unconscious instinct.
The intuitive mind is a sacred instrument and the creative life cannot be ruled by the conscious will.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
One of the most calamitous mistakes a parent can make is to try to shape their child's life according to their own.
The dream is a hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that primeval cosmic night that was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, but only binds more tightly.
The highest task of a leader is to increase the possibility of those under him to become whole people.
The world would be a better place if people took an inventory of their own shadow instead of blaming others for theirs.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
A dream is a small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens up to that primeval cosmic night that was the soul, long before there was the conscious ego.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness cons
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Cuộc gặp gỡ của hai con người giống như sự tiếp xúc của hai chất hóa học: nếu có phản ứng, cả hai đều được biến đổi.
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