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1938·Kesswil, Switzerland
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Thich Nhat Hanh·2005When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
Michel de MontaigneHe who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.
Virginia Woolf·1922The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
