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Quote by Werner Herzog

“All of us are in some sort of theater that we create for ourselves.”

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German film director known for his unique style and profound thematic explorations. His notable works include 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Wings of Desire'. more

“Naturally I shall not opt for narrative, which would mean inventing reality instead of searching for it. Neither shall I content myself with merely picking out and transcribing the images I remember; I shall process them like documents, examining them from different angles to give them meaning. In other words, I shall carry out an ethnological study of myself.”

Self Remembering Memory Work

Book:Shame

Source: Shame

“The 'self', which is nothing but thought, cannot contemplate its dissolution and invents the fiction of immortality, eternity. Who has ever seen or known eternity! It is a projection, just a fanciful notion. What we know is that everything is ephemeral, everything passes, and everything changes its form.”

Self Eternity Immortality Ephemeral

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“When will we choose to rise to the greatness embodied in the wholesale expenditure of self, versus choosing to live in the cowardice fed by the preservation of self?”

Self Greatness Selfish Cowardice Preservation Expenditure

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are all unconsciously bound to the wheel of fortune. It goes round and round and we go blindly around on it until one day something happens that wakes us up, face to face with ourselves. What for years we could not or would not see is made visible. The unconscious is made answerable to consciousness. The Self demands a reckoning: the ego must recognize what it has long feared and rejected. Whether we grow or wither in that encounter depends on whether we cling to our ego's rigid standpoint or whether we choose to trust the Self and leap into the unknown.”

Self Ego Unconscious

Book:The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women

Source: The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women

“Once you realize that you can’t rescue yourself you’ve taken the first step toward rescuing yourself.”

Self God Jesus Ego Salvation Christmas Rescue Egotistical First Responder

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we should allow for society to tell us what to think, to feel, and follow, surely we will find ourselves lost as society is.”

Self Society Politics Quotes Broms The Poet Feast The Second Serving

Book:FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

Source: FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

“We are born in a state of inflation. In earliest infancy, no ego or consciousness exists. All is in the unconscious. The latent ego is in complete identification with the Self. The Self is born, but the ego is made; and in the beginning all is Self. This state is described by Neumann as the uroborus (the tail-eating serpent). Since the Self is the center and totality of being, the ego totally identified with the Self experiences itself as a deity. We can put it in these terms retrospectively although, of course, the infant does not think in this way. He cannot yet think at all, but his total being and experience are ordered around the a priori assumption of deity. This is the original state of unconscious wholeness and perfection which is responsible for the nostalgia we all have toward our origins, both personal and historical.”

Self Ego

Book:Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

Source: Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

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