Unthreading Needle Quotes

#1. This progressive interiorization is a symptom of the individualization and intensification of human consciousness, and this same principle, which first promoted the growth of personality, continues to govern the next phase of its development (Part II).

Erich Neumann

#2. I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#3. The decline of violence is due largely to the rise of the state. Throughout history, most violence resulted from local feuds between families and communities. (Even today, as the above figures indicate, local crime is a far deadlier threat than international wars.)

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.

John O'Donohue

#5. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Jacques Barzun