31 Quotes About Individuation

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.

You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Your Ego and your Shadow are in constant conflict.

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.

It is precisely when our lives have become unmanageable and tragic that the ego can finally be knocked out of the controlling center of our psyche.