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“There is a very dangerous tendency to lean on one another as we tread the path. If a group of people leans one upon the other, then if one should happen to fall down, everyone falls down. So we do not lean on anyone else. We just walk with each other, side by side, shoulder to shoulder.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“Cei stăpâniți de un viciu ascuns pot identifica și analiza lucid mecanismele interne ale acelui viciu, când îi afectează pe ceilalți.”
― Matei Călinescu, Un fel de jurnal

“No matter how rich their fantasy life had been, it cannot begin to compensate for the bleak emptiness that the real world now presents to their eyes. When they lose the ability to interact in the interpersonal environment, they are profoundly and terribly lonely, for they are not only without others, they also have less of themselves. In this precarious and weakened state of inwardness, a single traumatic event or a stressful interpersonal situation can create a panic or confused state that catapults the person into an acute psychotic episode. In the regression to a previous level of ego development, the patient’s attempts to stabilize and integrate the personality at intermediate stages fail, until finally a very primitive level of equilibrium is reached.”
― Robert W. Firestone, The Fantasy Bond: Structure of Psychological Defenses

“Discovering your true nature doesn’t require that you suffer hardships or give up the things you enjoy.”
― Mooji, Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became