He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of selection, he would not have taken notice of those facts upon which he grounded his principle. You must have a lantern in your hand to give light, otherwise all the materials in the world are useless, for you cannot find them; and if you could, you could not arrange them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, remarked on 1830.09.21, Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T. Coleridge (1835), by Henry N. Coleridge

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake—Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, Anima Poetæ: From The Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Epitaph Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he— Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C! That he, who many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, Epitaph, written for himself (1833)

The progression from avyakta to manifold prakriti.

Rectangular log map-scheme of the Observable Universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi

But the Magician knows that the pure Will of every man and every woman is already in perfect harmony with the divine Will; in fact, they are one and the same.

Lon Milo DuQuette, The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema (1994)

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947), British occultist, mystic, poet, and social provocateur, in The Book of Lies (1913)

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, in Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

[Incidentally, the four questions for identifying and questioning stressful thoughts are: (1) Is it true? (2) Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (3) How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? (4) Who would you be without the thought?]

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

Byron Katie, Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

What youth found and must find outside, the man of life’s afternoon must find within himself.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 7

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), Book of Job (1954)

[The soul] is of divine nature and therefore immortal; there is a power inherent within it which builds up the body, sustains its life, heals its ills.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 8

Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation, to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude, the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), Civilization in Transition (1958)

“There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two “trees” are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.”

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Manly P. Hall 

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