"Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope."

-- John Boyd Orr

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“The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.”
“We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.”
“Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.”
“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”
“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”
“I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.”
“This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.”
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”

Source : "Psyche and Matter". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, p. 2016, 1992.

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