“quotes from my favourite books”

  • “ Man’s whole history consists from the very beginning in a conflict between his feeling of inferiority and arrogance.”

    -Four Archetypes

    C.G. Jung

  • “a creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his Daimon. “

    -Memories, Dreams, Reflections

    C.G. Jung

  • “(…) the salvation of the world consist in the salvation of the individual soul. “

    -The Undiscovered Self

    C.G. Jung

  • “(…) we must bring ourself s to admit that what is the closest to us, the psyche, is the very thing we know the least about (…)”

    -Psychological Types

    C.G. Jung

“Solitude is necessary for society, like silence is for language”  -

— Clarice na Cabeceira

Clarice Lispector

“What then can escort us on our way? One thing, and one thing only: philosophy. This consist in keeping divinity within (…”)

-Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

“nothing noble is done without risk”

-Michel de Montaigne


  • " I'm conscious of something within me that play before my soul as light dancing in front of it."

    Saint Augustine

  • "Man's best place to finding God is to look in the place where he left him."

    Meister Eckhart

    from Whom God Hid Nothing

    Sermons, Writings & Sayings

  • " Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you"

    Letters from a Stoic

    Seneca

  • "You die more than once during your life"

    Ecco Homos

    Nietzsche

  • "The good man was precisely "the one who was least certain about what the correct path was."

    Ecco Homos

    Nietzsche

  • "The most important thing in the language of storytelling is to be clear, but not too ordinary."

    How to Tell a Story

    Aristotle

  • " Is difficulty to live among men because silence is so difficult."

    Thus spoke Zarathustra

    Nietzsche

“If you want to empty the mind, is necessary to know the mind”

-Understanding reality

Chang PO-tuan

  • “Good and evil both arise in the moment of a thought”

    Vitality, Energy, Spirit

    A Taoist Sourcebook

  • “(…) dismiss intellectuality and cleverness, practice inner awareness (…).

    Awakening to the Tao

    Lui I-ming

  • “when my mind doesn't stir, the energy is naturally stable”

    The book of Balance and Harmony

    A Taoist Handnook

  • “ (…) and first know that the original nature of your mind is an open awareness (…)

    Transmission of Light

    Zen Master Keizan

“using flexibility to nuture strength, using strength to complete flexibility(…)”

The Inner Teachings of Taoism

Chang Po-Tuan

  • "(...) anxiety, leaving your mind wandering in disarray in the external world, not knowing where to return."

    Alqumia Taoist Dialogue

    Mâ Hé Yáng and Wu Juh Chemg

  • "(...) preservation of life is a matter of keeping basic energy stable."

    Pratical Taoisms

    Translated by Thomas Clearly

  • " The mutual molding of yin and yang means that yin and are based in one another; they are interdependt and complementary, the can't be separated."

    Immortal Sisters

    Secret Teachings of Taoist woman

  • “light comes from darkness, land emerges from floodwater with renewed fertility, flowers grow FROM LIFELESS Seeds. The potential for order existed within disorder.”

    The Egyptian Myths

    Carry J. Shaw

  • "when errant thoughts suddenly arise, do no go along with them at all, reduce them, reduce them (...)"

    Minding Mind

    A course in basic meditation

    Transled by Thomas Cleary

  • "work is love made visible"

    The Prophet

    Kahlil Gibran

“ (…) A warrior did not abandon himself to anything, not even to his death”

A Separate Reality

Carlos Castaneda