Al Owski

“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
― Carl Jung

“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

“Whether a life is fulfilled does not depend on how great one's radius of action is, but rather only on whether the circle is fully filled out.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

“There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart