45 Quotes by Robert A. Johnson

Perhaps one of the greatest jokes of my life is that I first went to India to be spiritualized, and I came home humanized.

Over the years I discovered that virtually everyone who comes to analysis is in some way facing a religious crisis, a term I prefer to neurosis, and every analysis is in some way a religious dilemma.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

People were startled to hear that if we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time.

When a marriage begins the partners are like two discrete circles overlapping a little. The division between the two is great and each has specific tasks. As the marriage partners grow older, each learns a bit of the other's genius, and finally the two circles overlap more and more.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.

...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

Özverinin kanunu şudur: Eğer bir erkek yanlış düzeyde sahip olduğu şeyden vazgeçerse, bu ona doğru düzeyde iade edilir.