Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.
Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
I would rather be whole than good.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.