"Do not go with the flow. Be the flow."

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Elif Safak

“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsÂ—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.”
“The unconscious is structured like a language.”

Source : "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud" (1957)
“We need a greening of globalisation.”
“We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories”
“If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.”
“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"-he owes performance and nothing else. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”
“The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.”
“I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.”

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