The Unanswered Questions of Karma

From Alice Paul Roderick

I strongly feel like I’m under the influence of things or problems that were left unfinished or unanswered by my parents, grandparents, and ancestors.

It seems to me that often in a family there is an impersonal karma passed down from parents to children.

I always thought that I too had to answer some questions that fate had already asked my ancestors and they couldn’t answer.

— Jung (1875–1961), Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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All modern psychology is constructed to explain how a human being can behave in the capitalist structure.

— Lacan

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

— John Maynard Keynes

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Dharma practice is one insult after another.

~Chögyam Trungpa

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