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"Loneliness. No one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and also, to find something within loneliness. The desire to merge with the other to assuage the trauma of being thrown into a universe, cut off from the umbilical cord at birth, is something all of our contemporaries engage in, though there may be anomalies, that does not mean psychosomatic manifestations from Eros won't leak out." — Nov 23, 2025 10:30PM
"Loneliness. No one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and also, to find something within loneliness. The desire to merge with the other to assuage the trauma of being thrown into a universe, cut off from the umbilical cord at birth, is something all of our contemporaries engage in, though there may be anomalies, that does not mean psychosomatic manifestations from Eros won't leak out." — Nov 23, 2025 10:30PM
“The freer he can keep himself of hard and fast principles and the readier he is to sacrifice his ego-will, the better are his chances of being emotionally grasped by something greater than himself.”
― Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
― Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
“Before this vision, I don’t remember having heard about this or about mystical happenings in general, and if I had, I’m certain I either paid such reports no heed or scoffed at them as superstition. My life had been devoted to scientific, rational pursuits, but the Light experience radically changed me.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox. Her encouragement, unflagging interest, and insights have been a major driving force over the time it has taken me to write this book. It is a work that is our combined effort, a product of the conjoined field we have created.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox. Her encouragement, unflagging interest, and insights have been a major driving force over the time it has taken me to write this book.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“Atop the dragon stands a figure known as a Rebis, a single body with two heads, one male, one female. The Rebis is a symbol of the fully developed personality that can emerge from forthright and courageous pursuit of what is meaningful (the round chaos) and dangerous and promising (the dragon). It has a symbolically masculine aspect, which typically stands for exploration, order, and rationality (indicated by the Sun, which can be seen to the left of the male head), and a symbolically feminine aspect, which stands for chaos, promise, care, renewal, and emotion (indicated by the Moon, to the right of the female). In the course of normal socialization, it is typical for one of these aspects to become more developed than the other (as males are socialized in the male manner, to which they are also inclined biologically, and females in the female manner). Nonetheless, it is possible—with enough exploration, enough exposure to the round chaos and the dragon—to develop both elements. That constitutes an ideal—or so goes the alchemical intuition.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
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