“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Variante: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Variante: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Contexto: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
Fonte: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.”
CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Contexto: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
Variante: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Fonte: Modern Man in Search of a Soul