Richard Wilhelm quotes

“If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.”
-- Richard Wilhelm

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“All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.”
-- Richard Wilhelm

Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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“There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.”
-- Richard Wilhelm

Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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“We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.”
-- Richard Wilhelm

Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.”

Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.”

“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”

“I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.”

“Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.”

Source : Anodea Judith (2012). “Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System”, p.201, Llewellyn Worldwide

“Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.”

“It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.”

“The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.”