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Nowhere are closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves., whom we always think we know already. Yet we know the immensities of space better than we know our own depths, where--even though we do not understand it--we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself. CW 8 - par 737

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Nothing exerts a stronger psychic effect upon the human environment, and especially upon children, than the life which the parents have not lived. CW 15 - par 4

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If there is anything that we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. CW 17 - par 287

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The totality of psyche can never be grasped by intellect alone. Whether we will or no, philosophy keeps breaking through, because the psyche seeks an expression that will embrace its total nature. CW 7 - par 201

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I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with hight ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being--that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal. CW 10 - par 588

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To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality in fact is. CW 7 - par 242

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An ancient adept has said: "If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way." This Chinese saying, unfortunately only too true, stands in sharp contrast to our belief in the "right" method irrespective of the man who applies it. In reality, everything depends on the man and little or nothing on the method. CW 13 - par 4