Milos

“Sve mi je slobodno, ali nije sve na korist; sve mi je slobodno, ali neću da što ovlada mnome (sv. Pavle u I Poslanici Korinćanima, 6,12).”
― Vladeta Jerotić, 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse

“He who has led you so far will guide you further.”
― Rumi

“From the centre of the “perfect man” flows the ocean (where, as we have said, the god dwells). The “perfect” man is, as Jesus says, the “true door,” through which the “perfect” man must go in order to be reborn. Here the problem of how to translate “teleios” becomes crucial; for—we must ask—why should anyone who is “perfect” need renewal through rebirth?108 One can only conclude that the perfect man was not so perfected that no further improvement was possible. We encounter a similar difficulty in Philippians 3 : 12, where Paul says: “Not that I … am already perfect” (τετελείωμαɩ). But three verses further on he writes: “Let us then, as many as are perfect (τέλεɩoɩ) be of this mind.” The Gnostic use of τέλεɩoς obviously agrees with Paul’s. The word has only an approximate meaning and amounts to much the same thing as πνεʋματɩκóς, ‘spiritual,’109 which is not connected with any conception of a definite degree of perfection or spirituality. The word “perfect” gives the sense of the Greek τέλεɩoς correctly only when it refers to God. But when it applies to a man, who in addition is in need of rebirth, it can at most mean “whole” or “complete,” especially if, as our text says, the complete man cannot even be saved unless he passes through this door.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

“the destroyer of ego. When the ego is annihilated, the inner eye blinks open.”
― Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds