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Hermeneutics (n.) is the idea that, like with a rock in your palm, to examine anything, you should turn it over and over until you are familiar with its shape and it is familiar with you.
Hermeneutics (n.) is a method of inquiry aiming toward understanding which, rather than arguing from assumed premises, logic, or syllogism, progresses by skirting, by repetition, by presenting the same thing from a slightly different angle until suddenly the reader takes into themselves a wider truth even though no conclusive moment of proof can be pointed to.
God (n.) might not exist, but empirically speaking, the pattern of God exist in every man and this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.
God (n.) is the name for all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.
God (n.) is not human... he is kind and terrible'both at once' and is therefore a great peril from which everyone naturally tries to save himself.
God (n.) is one who, without knowing it, man is always concerned with.
The Spiral (n.) is the fundamental law of growth, as seen in the growth of a plant, the leaves always grow out of the stem in the form of a spiral.
Health (n.) is one of those things that difficulty is necessary for.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a thing about which it can be said: Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Medicine (n.) cures diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
Difficulty (n.) is necessary for man's health.
Love (n.) is the ability to endure the tension of opposites without abandoning the process (as the key to success).
Life (n.) is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.
Life (n.) is a constantly changing thing. We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning... for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.
Life (n.) is teleology par excellence... it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.
Art (n.) is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
Art's (n.) social significance lies in how it educates the spirit of the age. It does so by reaching back into the primordial image in the unconscious, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking, bringing them into relation with conscious values, and thereby transforming them until they can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.
Art (n.) intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
Art's (n.) secret of effectiveness is to be found in a return to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.