Quotations

"Things are different with Luna: every month she is darkened and extinguished; she cannot hide this from anybody, not even from herself. She knows that this same Luna is now bright and now dark—but who has ever heard of a dark sun? We call this quality of Luna “women's closeness to nature,” and the fiery brilliance and hot air that plays round the surface of things we like to call “the masculine mind."

— Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, born 1875

"Logically the opposite of love is hate, and of Eros, Phobos, (fear); but psychologically it is the will to power. Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other."

— Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, born 1875

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

— Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, born 1875

"Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul."

— Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, born 1875

"Healing is coming to terms with things as they are. That’s very different from curing. With curing, there is an expectation that things will be restored as they were before."

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, born 1944

"It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware."

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, born 1944

"In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention."

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, born 1944

"Since the fall of Adam, Man's soul has been naked. God gave him a body in this world so that he could use it to do good deeds, which would sculpt him into God's image and clothe him in garments of light when he returns."

— Kabbalah

"When one person touches another with an act of kindness, their lights fuse for a moment, and from that union, an angel is born."

— Kabbalah

"First we receive the light, then we impart it. Thus we repair the world."

— Kabbalah

"But if a mirror ever makes you sad, you should know that it does not know you."

— Kabir, Indian Mystic, born 1398

"The river that flows in you also flows in me."

— Kabir, Indian mystic born 1440

"I sell mirrors in the city of the blind."

— Kabir, Indian mystic, born 1440

"If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written."

— Kabir, Indian mystic, born 1440