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The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
The Freudian aetiology that is typified by the trauma argument is determinism in a different form, and is the road to nihilism. Are you going to accept values like that?
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
The mind must be understood – if not, it will be your master. What slave is ever happy?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
No man lives within his own psychic sphere like a snail in its shell, separated from everybody else, but is connected with his fellow-men by his unconscious humanity. Carl Jung
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
To be a person – at least a modern person – is to be excluded from oneself and others.
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
Patients in therapy all begin by protesting, “I want to be good.” If they cannot accomplish this, it is only because they are “inadequate,” can’t control themselves, are too anxious, or suffer from unconscious impulses. Being neurotic is being able to act badly without feeling responsible for what you do. The therapist must try to help the patient
... See moretaught him “freedom from” without teaching “freedom for”?
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
The living being becomes a commodity on the “personality market.” The