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“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
“People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.”
― The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
― The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
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