When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
–Ernest Hemingway

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
–Anais Nin

… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
–Paul Bowles

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
–Gloria Steinem

Radical humility is the only possible way forward. The ultimate spiritual position is not guru or sage. It is servant. And you can’t serve until you’ve been destroyed.
–Andrew Harvey, author of The Sun at Midnight

What is not brought to consciousness comes to us as fate.
–Carl Jung

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
–Franz Kafka

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
–Jean Cocteau

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
– Arthur Golden

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
–Goethe