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Quotes from Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy — Alejandro Jodorowsky

born 1929 Chile

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The real leap is learning to receive, which is as difficult as learning to give.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

"Beauty is the most dangerous weapon," he warned.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

We must be what we are and not what they want us to be.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

But everyone in the world has a cross. Mine is mine, yours is yours: I only can make you conscious of your cross and, apart from that, you free yourself or not. This depends on you.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

For art to be art it has to cure.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

We only have problems we really want to have.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

To be born into a family is to be, if I may say it this way, possessed. This possession is transmitted from generation to generation: the enchanted becomes the enchanter in projecting onto his children what was projected onto him—unless an awakening comes to break the cycle.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

The people with low level of consciousness look for someone else to affirm their value, but people with higher levels of consciousness, what they seek is someone to point out their defects so they can become better.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alejandro Jodorowsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.