Quotes About Depth

Iubirea ta r?sun? ca o org? în mine, Secretele mele se afl? în palma ta deschis?, Întreaga mea fiin?? suspin? ca o harf? obosit? Sub atingerea ta. Nu suntem oare, noi, tu È™i eu, un singur suflet? Ne înf??i??m, ne ascundem tu în mine È™i eu în tine. Aceasta este esenÈ›a iubirii mele pentru tine: Nici pentru mine, nici pentru tine nu exist? Tu, ci Eu.

It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion

Back during the Gold Rush you could go into a stream of water and pan out a little gold dust. But if you really wanted to make a strike and get down where the real gold was, you had to dig for it. In the same way you can skim along on the top of scriptures—but if you really want to find out what the Bible says, you'll have to dig down into the Word of God.)

Women are more complicated when it comes to their affections: They rarely love simply for what is--but for what might be.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

La mia anima è un abisso tutto striato di febbri.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

High thoughts are profound.

Everything to come was already in images: to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert. This is an image. The ancients lived their symbols, since the world had not yet become real for them. Thus they went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that the place of the soul is a lonely desert.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

Image is psyche.

Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers...he transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a crisis.

Fascination arises when the unconscious has been moved.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

I knew that I had to find the answer out of my deepest self

În m?sura în care simbolul provine la fel de mult din conÅŸtiin?? cât ÅŸi din inconÅŸtient, el poate s? le uneasc? pe amândou?.

It is as if the "eyes of the background" do the seeing in an impersonal act of perception.