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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

— Carl Jung Psychology and Alchemy (1952)

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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.

Paracelsus the Physician (1942)

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954)

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality.

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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