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“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.”
― Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
― Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
“Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.”
― Will Therapy/Truth and Reality
― Will Therapy/Truth and Reality
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
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“no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is,51 on whom he depends and whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself), and to what end he was made.”
― Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis
― Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis
“…prominence and deviance are two ways of standing apart from society’s norms.”
― Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed
― Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed
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