―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
―Unfolding the Stone, Terence McKenna
She especially has no appreciation for all that is “ merely ” striving and not accomplishment. She rather discards, for instance, the honest striving to get to the roots of her trouble, which she has shown in making one serious attempt after another to take up analysis or to analyze herself.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
