{"quotes":[{"text":"Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerstone of the Moslem world. It was too deep to be called hypocrisy; it was merely custom. They said one thing and they did something else. They affirmed their adherence to Islam in formulated phrases, but they behaved as though they believed, and actually did believe, something quite different. Still, the unchanging profession of faith was there, and to him it was this eternal contradiction which made them Moslems. But Amar’s relationship to his religion was far more robust: he believed it possible to practice literally what the Koran enjoined him to profess. He kept the precepts constantly in his hand, and applied them on every occasion, at every moment. The fact that such a person as Amar could be produced by this society rather upset Stenham’s calculations. For Stenham, the exception invalidated the rule instead of proving it: if there were one Amar, there could be others. Then the Moroccans were not the known quantity he had thought they were, inexorably conditioned by the pressure of their own rigid society; his entire construction was false in consequence, because it was too simple and did not make allowances for individual variations.","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["archetypes","colonialism","custom","french-morocco","individual-variation","individuation","islam","morocco","society","stereotypes","tradition","variation"],"id":113543,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.","author":"James Hollis","tags":["complex","consciousness","depth-psychology","individuation","jungian-analyst"],"id":116489,"author_id":"James+Hollis"},{"text":"The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.","author":"James Hollis","tags":["depth-psychology","ego","individuation","jungian-analyst","wholeness"],"id":119537,"author_id":"James+Hollis"},{"text":"When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.","author":"Bud Harris","tags":["individuation","learn-to-love","losing-yourself","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":135890,"author_id":"Bud+Harris"},{"text":"The Alchemical world view, in stark contrast to the scientific world view, where rational deterministic man is completely separated from both Nature and the Self, in fact the Self does not even exist. In the alchemical world view, all three are inextricably woven together and in 'synchronistic' or 'archetypal' events \u0026 occurrences in one's life, all distinctions between them blur and almost disappear.","author":"Craig Nelson","tags":["alchemy","archetypes","individuation","man","nature","psychology","self","synchronicity"],"id":169530,"author_id":"Craig+Nelson"},{"text":"Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.","author":"Tyler Hebert","tags":["consciousness","esotericism","individuation","life","new-age","psychology","self","spirituality","unconventional"],"id":210537,"author_id":"Tyler+Hebert"},{"text":"The difference between the 'natural' individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it. The filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon) is the possible result as well as the symbol of this union of opposites. It is the alpha and omega of the process, the mediator and intermedius. 'It has a thousand names,' say the alchemists, meaning that the source from which the individuation process rises and the goal toward which it aims is nameless, ineffable.","author":"C.G. Jung","tags":["alchemy","christ","coniunctio-oppositorum","enlightenment","individuation","psychoanalysis","religion","the-meaning-of-life"],"id":228075,"author_id":"C.G.+Jung"},{"text":"Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["autonomy","buddhism","disillusionment","illusion","impermanence","individuation","nostalgia","nostalgic","reality","spiritual-transformation","tantric-buddhism","zeena-schreck"],"id":234336,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy I'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth \u0026 everything I was born to be.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["conformity","cornered","dormant","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","earth","eclectic","expansion","free-spirit","freedom","greatness","happiness","individuality","individuation","inspirational","life","life-lessons","motivational","playing-small","poem","poetry","self-love","sleeping","think-big","vision","wisdom"],"id":236877,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["coercion","conformity","conventionality","creation","diversity","expansion","freedom","group-mentality","group-think","individuation","self-expression","sheeple","spiritual-life","universe"],"id":251636,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}