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“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, noble child, everything is severing the mind. As for the mind, it is severing pride. There is nothing whatsoever that is not included in pride. If one simply understands that it is merely the production of pride, then, for example, one is like a thief in an empty house: by simply recognizing [the situation], grasping is impossible. Having correctly understood, there is no practice with an intentional objective. Because it crushes any hesitations (mi phod), it is explained as Chöd.”
― Machik Labdrön, Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition