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The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important.
Love and Will (1969)
Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.
Love and Will (1969)
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Love and Will (1969)
Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time.
Love and Will (1969)
The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself.
Love and Will (1969)
All life is a flux between these two aspects of the daimonic.
Love and Will (1969)
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.
Love and Will (1969)
The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.
Love and Will (1969)
The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.
Love and Will (1969)
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Love and Will (1969)
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Love and Will (1969)
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
Love and Will (1969)
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized — and it may explode into violence.
Love and Will (1969)
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world.
Love and Will (1969)
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
Love and Will (1969)
The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine.
Love and Will (1969)
Both artist and neurotic speak and live from the subconscious and unconscious depths of their society. The artist does this positively, communicating what he experiences to his fellow men. The neurotic does this negatively.
Love and Will (1969)
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
Love and Will (1969)
While the daimonic cannot be said to be evil in itself, it confronts us with the troublesome dilemma of whether it is to be used with awareness, a sense of responsibility and the significance of life, or blindly and rashly.
Love and Will (1969)
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
Love and Will (1969)