Iosif-Ionel Ungureanu

“It often happens: you're talking with someone, and you kind of like what he's saying, and there seems to be some truth in it. Then suddenly you notice he's wearing an old tee shirt, his slippers are darned, his trousers are patched at the knee and the furniture in his room is worn and cheap. You look a bit closer and all around you you see signs of humiliating poverty you didn't notice before, and you realise everything your interlocutor has done and thought in his life has failed to lead him to that single victory that you wanted so badly on that distant May morning when you gritted your teeth and promised yourself you wouldn't lose, even though it still wasn't really very clear just who you were playing with and what the game was. And although it hasn't become the slightest bit clearer since then, you immediately lose interest in what he's saying. You want to say goodbye to him in some pleasant fashion, get away as quickly as possible and finally get down to business.”
― Victor Pelevin, Generation "П". Повести. Рассказы

“In practical terms, the ego-shadow split is alleviated through the development of the feeling function, for it is feeling that determines the value of the opposites involved in any conflict situation.”
― Daryl Sharp, The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka

“Psychologically the sense of loneliness and isolation indicates a lack of, and therefore need for, communication with the various personalities within oneself, i.e., personifications of complexes.”
― Daryl Sharp, The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka

“This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.”
― Laurens van der Post