Interesting/Insightful
Quotes:
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“The eternally recurring themes of childhood and
youth, love and sex, hunting and warfare, sickness and healing, death and
rebirth, fertility and sacrifice – everything that constitutes a core experience
of human life – has often share striking resemblances to one another, wherever
on this planet they have been brought into being” (Stevens 17).
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“Image, behavior, and emotion appear to be constellated
round an archetypal core existing as an innate predisposition in the central
nervous system of the species” (Stevens 23).
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“The success (or failure) of our attachment
bonds has profound consequences for our emotional lives. Fear that an
attachment bond may be under threat can result in anger and aggression, as well
as anxiety, depression, and sometimes, suicide. Renewal of an attachment bond,
on the other hand, or reunion after a period of separation, can be experienced
as source of profound joy” (Stevens 48)
Confusing Quotes:
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”The uroboric snake slumbering in the
unconscious, coiled up in the lowest chakra of kundalini ascent, is the
reptilian life still lurking in the nuclei of the nervous system” (Steven 33).
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