We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.