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""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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“When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.”
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Man is but a reed, the feeblest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him… But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him – the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Without Contraries is no Progression.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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