George Orwell : Pleasure Spots
"Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness."
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InLibroVeritas
26 août5 min de lecture
Carl Jung : Letters to Emma Jung
"The sea is like music; it has all the dreams of the soul within itself and sounds them over."
InLibroVeritas
21 août5 min de lecture
The Myth of the "Night Sea Journey" (Jolande Jacobi)
"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."
InLibroVeritas
18 août7 min de lecture
Maigan Wipfli : Lived Experiences of Introverts
"The introverted attitude is characterized by detachment and by enjoyment of solitude and privacy."
InLibroVeritas
18 août4 min de lecture
Carl Jung : Extraversion and Introversion
"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."
InLibroVeritas
13 août4 min de lecture
Satori : The Art of Enlightenment (Erich Fromm)
"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."
InLibroVeritas
4 août6 min de lecture
James Hollis : Hamlet's Stuckness
"Hamlet is so familiar to us because he knows, really knows, that he is his own worst problem."
InLibroVeritas
3 août5 min de lecture
James Hollis : Self, or Self-Image ?
"Nietzsche once said that before the path can be followed, one must first have found the lantern."
InLibroVeritas
30 juil.8 min de lecture
F. Scott Fitzgerald : Sleeping and Waking
"Sleep — real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby."
InLibroVeritas
24 juil.6 min de lecture
R.D. Laing : Self-Consciousness
"Being visible is a basic biological risk; being invisible is a basic biological defence. We all employ some form of camouflage."
InLibroVeritas
2 févr.6 min de lecture
Jolande Jacobi : Individuation and the "change of life"
"The "change of life" is .. the urge and possibility for further spiritual and psychic development."
InLibroVeritas
1 févr.3 min de lecture
La Rochefoucauld : Du rapport des hommes avec les animaux
"Il y a autant de diverses espèces d’hommes qu’il y a de diverses espèces d’animaux."
InLibroVeritas
22 janv.8 min de lecture
James Hollis : What is Healing ?
"This particular animal, the human, is the most complex and needs the longest length of protection before it is able to manage on its own."
InLibroVeritas
31 déc. 202314 min de lecture
Rilke, Kafka et Pessoa : Les "Étrangers" (#2)
"Pour ces êtres atteints d’ « insécurité ontologique », il faut tâcher de puiser en soi-même le moyen d’être authentiquement."
InLibroVeritas
26 nov. 20237 min de lecture
"I began to lose me" : A letter to Carl Rogers
"I don't know how to explain who I am or why I am writing to you except to say that I have just read your book, On Becoming a Person, ..."
InLibroVeritas
23 nov. 20233 min de lecture
Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being (Carl Rogers)
"I would no longer be terming it a "state of empathy," because I believe it to be a process, rather than a state."
InLibroVeritas
22 nov. 20234 min de lecture
Carl Rogers : The tendency toward fulfillment
"To me it is meaningful to say that the substratum of all motivation is the organismic tendency toward fulfillment."
InLibroVeritas
25 oct. 20235 min de lecture
Soulful and Spirited Temperaments
People with a soulful psychological temperament are receptive, reflective, often deliberate and slow.
InLibroVeritas
2 août 20235 min de lecture
Amiel, Lecteur de Maine De Biran (par Georges Gusdorf)
"Dans cet éternel observateur de soi-même, je me retrouve avec tous mes défauts : inconstance, indécision, découragement, inachèvement."
InLibroVeritas
27 juil. 20238 min de lecture
Maine de Biran, The Introvert (by Aldous Huxley)
"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."
InLibroVeritas
18 juin 20234 min de lecture
Maine De Biran : La "culture du sens intime"
"Il n'est pas difficile de prouver que l'attention et la réflexion sont des facultés vraiment morales."
InLibroVeritas
18 juin 20235 min de lecture
Maine de Biran ou l'observation de soi (Ernest Naville)
"M. de Biran fut un observateur de soi-même comme il n’en existe qu’un bien petit nombre."
InLibroVeritas
5 juin 20234 min de lecture
C.G. Jung : The archdemon of egoism
"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."
InLibroVeritas
29 mai 20234 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : What makes people unhappy ?
Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.
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