“Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“A creative individual requires individuation; only by stepping beyond the herd can an authentic voice be heard.” — Greilyn Almonte Copy Share Image
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“When one has let go of that great hidden agenda that drives humanity and its varied histories, then one can begin to… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”)… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Many marriages dry up and miss the path to individuation because the couples try to ease their situations through excluding and representing… — Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig Copy Share Image
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Jung came to understand that in this regard, we are all fragmented, and that the work of individuation is to fuse our… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“[Dionysos'] being torn into pieces, the genuine Dionysiac suffering, is like a transformation into air, water, earth, and fire, so that we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As we embark on this challenging yet transformational inner journey, we tap into the quantum self, the infinite potential that resides within.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother. - Struggle to escape perp reinforces feelings of… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way… — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“I think a good rule of thumb for being true to your own convictions is this; don't do or champion anything in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a… — Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig Copy Share Image
This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“the outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image