"An understanding heart is everything in a..." - Quote by Carl Jung
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
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“Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”
“I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.”
“The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”
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“Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.”
“I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.”
“Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.”