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“When something—I must stress this with all possible emphasis—is traced back to a psychic condition or fact, it is very definitely not reduced to nothing and thereby nullified, but is shifted on to the plane of psychic reality,”
― C.G. Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

“for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Complete Works of Cicero

“Attention is at the heart of psychotherapy: first to bring awareness to problems, patterns and pain, second to control unconsidered reactions and replace them with considered responses.”
― Gay Watson, Attention

“Knowledge and action are very closely bound together, all agree. I go much further, and am convinced that knowledge and action are frequently synonymous, even identical in the Socratic fashion. Where we know fully and completely, suitable action follows automatically and reflexly. Choices are then made without conflict and with full spontaneity.”
― Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being