“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

A man must begin to observe himself as though he did not know himself at all, as though he had never observed himself.

Continuïteit van de samenhang: De rivier is steeds weer anders, omdat er voortdurend ander water doorheenstroomt. Maar tegelijk blijft hij toch ook dezelfde rivier bij alle voortdurende verandering.

Freedom is bound up with differentiation. Salvation here means only the preservation of one's unique identity in a world tending to make every one and every thing alike. This is the root of the fear. Rimbaud stressed the fact that he wanted liberty in salvation. But ONE IS SAVED ONLY BY SURRENDERING THIS ILLUSORY FREEDOM. The liberty he demanded was freedom for his ego to assert itself unrestrained. That is not freedom. Under this illusion one can, if one lives long enough, play out every facet of one's being, and still find cause to complain, ground to rebel. It is a kind of liberty which grants one the right to object, to secede if necessary. It does not take into account other people's differences, only one's own. It will never aid one to find one's link, one's communion, with all mankind. One remains forever separate, forever isolate.

The struggle of the human being to emancipate himself, that is, to liberate himself from the prison of his own making, that is for me the supreme subject.

Man is compared to a "House In Disorder": The Master is away, and the servants are doing what they like. When the telephone rings, they speak and pretend that they are the Master, and make all sorts of promises and orders under his pretense. Some of these servants feel that there is a better state possible. They see clearly what is going on, and band together with the intention of putting order in the house, in the hope that this will attract the return of the Master.

“I never surrendered, because the more you struggle, the more possibilities you have of winning and receiving help. It has always been in the last minutes, when everything seemed lost that someone came to help me go beyond my limits.”

Only try, try, try, try, for ten thousand years, nonstop. Only do it. That is all.

The useful part of education is that which stimulates imagination. The useful part of knowledge is that which expands human possibilities.

IQ tests are not widely used in Soviet Union, since IQ is believed to reflect the level of social opportunity.

The Soviet concept of ORIENTING/EXPLORATORY REFLECT is the number one most important single holistic "informing principle" in biology and psychology.

There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

To know and not be knowing is best. To be ignorant but think one knows is a disaster. Knowing one's faults is the means to faultlessness.

Westerners are so used to thinking of training, learning, and teaching as verbal activities that we forget that much, perhaps most, learning happens without verbal instruction.

Deep inside I always knew, but so much that I learned smothered that knowing.

Ieder mens weet hoe nuttig het is nuttig te zijn. Geen mens schijnt echter te weten hoe nuttig het is nutteloos te zijn.

Nature is an incomparable guide if you know how to follow her. She is like the needle of the compass pointing to the North, which is most useful when you have a good man-made ship and when you know how to navigate. That's about the position. If you the river, you surely come to the sea finally. But if you take it literally you soon get stuck in an impassable gorge and you complain of being misguided. The unconscious is useless without the human mind. It always seeks its collective purposes and never your individual destiny. Your destiny is the result of the collaboration between the conscious and the unconscious.

Multiplicatio: een werkelijk geindividueerde persoonlijkheid heeft een uitstraling naar andere mensen en brengt in hen hetzelfde proces op gang. Op die manier worden anderen ook bij het genezingsproces betrokken.

De doorbraak van archetypische symbolen in droom of fantasie betekent de mogelijkheid van terugkoppeling van de dromer met de oorspronkelijke KENNISSCHAT in zijn innerlijk en daarmee ook de verandering van zijn instelling.

Wie wijs is, is nooit een allesweter. Veeleer geeft hij een voorbeeld van het belang in de spanning van het onopgeloste, in de ontmoeting met het irrationele te kunnen leven. Hoe groter onze angst is, des te perfecter en dwangmatiger moet ons denksysteem zijn om te kunnen bestaan. DENKEN IS TERMINOLOGISCHE WERELDVERBETERING EN TEGELIJK ZELFBESCHERMING.

Het droomlichaam is een soort multi-dimensionale seiner die visuele, acoustische en proprioceptieve seinen geeft. Het is je totaliteit die probeert te verschijnen en die je vraagt haar informatie serieus te nemen.

It is not I who live, it lives me.

Action through non-action. Non-action prevents a man from becoming entangled in form and image.