LEO BUSCAGLIA “Living, Loving & Learning”
I EXIST, I AM HERE, I AM BECOMING, I MAKE MY OWN LIFE AND NO ONE MAKES IT FOR ME. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. and if I fail, I don’t have the comfort of blaming you or life or
God.
God.
CARL JUNG 1876-1963 “The Undiscovered Self””Memories, Dreams” “The Red Book” “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
UNTIL you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
WE ARE NOT WHAT HAPPENED TO US, WE ARE WHAT WE WISH TO BECOME.
THINKING IS DIFFICULT, that’s why most people judge.
EVERYTHING that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
WHO LOOKS OUTSIDE, DREAMS; WHO LOOKS INSIDE AWAKES.
THE DIFFERENCE between a good life and a bad life is how you walk through the fire.
THE FOUNDATION OF ALL MENTAL ILLNESS is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
IN ORDER TO KNOW THE LIGHT, WE MUST FIRST EXPERIENCE DARKNESS.
BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR DIFFICULTIES and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact . . . Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for healthy personal growth, individuation and self-actualization.
TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION IS ALREADY HALF THE SOLUTION OF A PROBLEM.
THE PRIVILEGE OF A LIFETIME IS TO BECOME WHO YOU TRULY ARE.
WE DON’T REALLY HEAL ANYTHING; WE SIMPLY LET IT GO.
WE CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
EVERYONE YOU MEET knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.
WISDOM ACCEPTS THAT ALL THINGS HAVE TWO SIDES.
IN EVERY ADULT THERE LURKS A CHILD — an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. that is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
AS FAR AS WE CAN DISCERN, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. You vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. . . . Who looks outside dreams. who looks inside, awakens. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894-1963 “Brave New World”
PEOPLE WILL COME TO LOVE THEIR OPPRESSION, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
THE DEEPEST SIN against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
THE VICTIM OF MIND-MANIPULATION does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1856-1950 “PYGMALION”, “CANDIDA”
WAR DOES NOT DECIDE WHO IS RIGHT BUT WHO IS LEFT.
DON’T LOSE FAITH. PROMISE YOURSELF that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
THE TRUTH IS THE ONE THING THAT NOBODY WILL BELIEVE.
THE SECRET TO SUCCESS IS TO OFFEND THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
OUR LIVES AEE SHAPED NOT AS MUCH BY OUR EXPERIENCES AS BY OUR EXPECTATIONS.
YOU USE a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see you soul.
NOW THAT WE HAVE LEARNED TO FLY THE AIR LIKE BIRDS, swim underwater like fish, we lack one thing — to learn to live on earth as human beings.
MOST PEOPLE do not pray; they beg.
WHEN A THING IS FUNNY, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEY (CONTINUED)
NEVER HAVE SO MANY BEEN MANIPULATED SO MUCH BY SO FEW.
THE SUREST WAY TO WORK UP A CRUSADE in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.
THERE IS ONLY ONE CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE YOU CAN BE CERTAIN OF IMPROVING, AND THAT’S YOU OWN SELF.
LIBERTY, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even near war footing. permanent crisis justifies permaNENT CONTROL of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD.
THE SECRET OF GENIUS is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which means never losing your enthusiasm.
LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR; but conversely fear casts out love. and not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
MOST IGNORANCE IS VINCIBLE IGNORANCE. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
DICTATORS can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
IF MOST OF US REMAIN IGNORANT of ourslves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
BE YOU REAL SELF