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Quotes About Integration

Centroversion persistently strives to ensure that the ego shall not remain an organ of the unconscious, but shall become more and more the representative of wholeness. That is to say, the ego fights against the unconscious tendency that seeks to master it, and instead of allowing itself to be possessed, learns to keep its independence in relation to both inside and outside.
~ Erich Neumann
The fact that they have failed to rescue and redeem the feminine side of themselves is often expressed psychologically in an intensive preoccupation with universals to the exclusion of the personal, human element.
~ Erich Neumann
The more acute the systemization of consciousness is, the more sharply it constellates the contents of the unconscious.
~ Erich Neumann
Thus, on the primitive level, conscious realization is called eating. When we talk of the conscious mind "assimilating" an unconscious content, we are not saying much more than is implied in the symbol of eating and digesting.
~ Erich Neumann
Centroversion is the innate tendency of a whole to create unity within its parts and to synthesize their differences in unified systems.
~ Erich Neumann
Even personal complexes, i.e., semiconscious "split offs" which belong to the upper layers of the personal unconscious and are affectively charged and "feeling-toned," can evoke physical alterations in the circulatory system, in the respiration, blood pressure, and so on.
~ Erich Neumann
It is, however, impossible to find the treasure unless the hero has first found and redeemed his own soul, his own feminine counterpart which conceives and brings forth.
~ Erich Neumann
While in the beginning the ego germ lay in the embrace of the hermaphroditic uroboros, at the end the self proves to be the golden core of a sublimated uroboros, combining in itself masculine and feminine, conscious and unconscious elements, a unity in which the ego does not perish but experiences itself, in the self, as the uniting symbol.
~ Erich Neumann
Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.
~ Erich Neumann
Although standing from the very beginning under the motto "Away from the unconscious," the ego, as the organ of centre-version, must never lose touch with it, for it is an essential part of its natural balancing function to give the transpersonal world its due place.
~ Erich Neumann
In the early uroboric state there is a fusion both of man with the world and of the individual with the group.
~ Erich Neumann
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
~ Erik Erikson
We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?
~ Erin Gray
Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.
~ Erin Hunter
You cannot live with a paw in both worlds
~ Erin Hunter
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Business is globalizing so fast that it has led to the often quoted clash of civilizations. People simply have not had time to get to know and understand people of other cultures sufficiently to live and work in harmony.
~ Begum Aga Khan
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
~ bellow saul v
For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there. "It
~ Ben Aaronovitch
so their views will have to be taken into account. Moreover,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I was less sure of how well Dan, a lawyer among economists, would fit into the FOMC,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
the consequences of not having a single fiscal authority for the eurozone became apparent.
~ Ben S. Bernanke