Ira Progoff Professions : Psychotherapist Born : August 2, 1921 Died : January 1, 1998 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Ira Progoff Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness. Ira Progoff intuition gains men Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence. Ira Progoff atmosphere growth silence There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very discovering of it. It is an ongoing experience of growth that involves a deepening contact with reality. To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the way to it is by a path of subjectivities. . . . The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person. Ira Progoff war life reality A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it. Ira Progoff meaning-of-life life-is inspirational The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. Ira Progoff meaning-of-life missing war The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person. Ira Progoff meaning-of-life persons happens Similar Authors Alfred Adler psychotherapist Beverly Engel psychotherapist Bert Hellinger psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden psychotherapist Piero Ferrucci psychotherapist Philippa Perry psychotherapist All Authors
