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“…man does not live very long in the infantile environment or in the bosom of his family without real danger to his mental health. Life calls him forth to independence, and he who gives no heed to this hard call because of childish indolence and fear is threatened by a neurosis, and once the neurosis has broken out it becomes more and more a valid reason to escape the battle with life and to remain for all time in the morally poisoned infantile atmosphere.”
― C.G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious

“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
― Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Discipline is the cultivation of resistance, and where there is resistance there is no understanding. A well disciplined mind is not a free mind, and it is only in freedom that any discovery can be made.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living: First Series