Sometimes, ambitious projects are born of an obsessive-compulsive desire to tie up loose ends rather than elegant ab initio architectural visions. This book is one such project: a set of loose ends explored over three years and fifty-plus
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“the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is the technique for stripping them of their power.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Arab culture had struck me with overwhelming force. The emotional nature of these unreflective people who are so much closer to life than we are”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“for she belonged to that class of human beings of whom spiritual activity is demanded”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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