291. Even though we may not be in a position to fulfill the inner demands, the fact that we pay attention to them enlists a cooperative rather than a disturbing response. To the extent that we try our hardest and sti11 stumble, at ]east we will receive pointers as to how and why we stumble.

292. Neither can the experience of the absolutely irrational and absurd be ignored.

298. Robert Frost: Our very life depends on everything’s

Recurring till we answer from within.

The thousandth time may prove the charm.

298. The objective psyche tends to react favorably or unfavorably depending upon the appropriateness of our approach to it.

299. This analogy [magnets and iron] gives us a comprehensible image of what happens when two people meet. Their psychic field patterns interact. Something happens, something clicks one way or another and their unconscious patterns “arrange” themselves relative to each other in a typical fashion whether they know it or not, or care to or not; the less they are aware of it the more compulsive the effect of the occurrence will be.

300. If we do not know what moves us we are in no position to understand what we are doing, nor are we in any position to choose what we wish to do. #freewill

302. Thus the transference is not a neurotic reaction which could be avoided but an inescapable normal element of every therapeutic encounter, a part of a constellated “I-Thou” field of the search for consciousness.

303. The difficulties that arise in the therapist-patient relationship cannot be simply dealt with on the basis of a resistance which the patient ought to overcome. They may point also to areas in which the therapist himself needs ever greater awareness.

305: (Jung quote): “The doctor knows—or at least he should know—that he did not choose his career by chance; and the psychotherapist in particular should clearly understand that psychic infections [that means getting involved and affected by one person’s affect problem] however superfluous they seem to him, are in fact the predestined concomitants of his work, and thus fully in accord with the instinctive disposition of his own life.”

305. The analyst must work on his own problems simultaneously in order to help the patient to change.

307. Good intentions all too readily can foster the illusion that we have settled an issue, when actually it is far from settled and seems to have not the slightest intention of ever being settled.

307. Transformation of our personality occurs in us , upon us but not by us.

308. Whenever we put ourselves too low, the unconscious will lift us, and whenever we put ourselves too high, the unconscious will put us down.

308. For when the changes finally take place they seem to do so in spite of our efforts, not because of them.

310. “Sick” and “well” are relative terms; many neurotic or even psychotic disturbances are caused by hindering a natural and needed creative unfoldment; then the unconscious potentialites that have not been recognized will disturb conscious life. In this sense also the neurotic or disturbed person will meet his most profound possibilities through therapy rather than merely accomplishing a return to “normalcy.” He may, in other words, be sick because he has been confined to being nothing but “normal” and “average0 and has more than this to offer.

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