“I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that 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.”
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are it – we become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close to this pleroma. His consciousness is still uncertain, wobbling on its feet. It is still childish, having just emerged from the primal waters. A wave of the unconscious may easily roll over it, and then he forgets who he was and does things that are strange to him.”
„Sotva se nás nevědomí jen dotkne, a už jsme jím – stáváme se nevědomi sebe sama. To je ono prastaré nebezpečí, instinktivně známé a obávané primitivním člověkem, který osamocen stojí tak blízko k Plérómatu. Jeho vědomí je dosud nejisté, sotva se drží na nohou. Je doposud dětinské, sotva se vynořilo z prapůvodních vodstev. Vlna nevědomí se přes něj může kdykoli převalit a on pak rázem zapomene, kým byl, a dělá prapodivné věci. Primitivové se právě proto bojí nezvladatelných emocí, neboť se pod jejich tíhou láme vědomí, čímž je dán průchod posedlosti. Veškeré úsilí člověka se tudíž vždy zaměřovalo na konsolidaci vědomí. V tom vězel smysl rituálu a dogmat; ony byly přehradami a hradbami, které měly za úkol zadržet nebezpečí nevědomí, nástrahy duše.”
“Naturally, a doctor must be familiar with the so-called “methods.” But he must guard against falling into any specific, routine approach. In general one must guard against theoretical assumptions. … In my analyses they play no part. I am unsystematic very much by intention. We need a different language for every patient.”
“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
Vlado Šolc
