Assagioli on spiritual experience: it cannot be argued into being but only walked toward, and only those who have made the journey can really speak of it. By Roberto AssagioliIn dialogue with studentsDoc. #23390, Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Esperienza Spirituale (dibattito)Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [1] Editorial NoteThe original is a corrected […]

Transcendence of the Self: the Self does not descend to us, Assagioli says, but radiates into the superconscious and waits for the personal self to climb its thread. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #14263, Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Transcenza del SèTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]

Experiences of the Self are reached by climbing, not flying: most seekers leap straight to the cosmic and miss the Self entirely, mistaking ecstasy for ascent. By Stuart MillerInterview with Roberto Assagioli, January 23, 1973Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Le Esperienze Del SéTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this […]

Many paths to the universal ask you to dissolve the self entirely, but Assagioli holds that individuality and universality are one synthesis: the center of awareness widens, it never disappears. By Roberto AssagioliCommentary on the enclosed diagram, during a meeting with Lama Govinda, Castiglioncello, August 1972Assagioli Archive, Florence, Doc. #23978Original title: Il SèTranslated from Italian […]

Our entire inner development consists of an enlargement and elevation of our I-consciousness until it reaches complete union with the true Self. By Roberto Assagioli  (date unknown), from the Assagioli Archive in Florence, derived from Psicoenergetica.it. Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons, original title:  The Self [Yes, English title-KS] In the spiritual history of humanity, […]

The inner Master, the spiritual “I”, is omniscient, sees into the future, and has admirable powers, whose limits we cannot see. By Roberto Assagioli (date unknown), Lesson VI, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence, derived from Psicoenergetica.it. Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons, original title: Il Rapporto Con L’anima There are cosmic influences, as already […]

INSPIRATION – INVENTION – GENIUS For Chopin – writes G. Sand – the creation was spontaneous, miraculous; he found it without looking for it, without foreseeing it: it came complete, sudden and sublime. By Roberto Assagioli, Lecture 1934, Translated by Gordon Symons, from the Assagioli Archive Florence, doc. 23482. Original Title: Le Energie Latenti In […]

The experience of the self gives a sense of concentrated power at rest, yet ready to express itself dynamically either in the mastery over all elements and forces of the personality or expressed through creative activity. By Roberto Assagioli , From the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Gordon Symons. Original title: Il Mistero Del Sé […]

The “SELF” is not a function, but has functions; it’s not only movement and creation, but he is the origin, the source of all movement and future becoming: he is above all “ESSENCE”, “SUBSTANCE – TRANSCENDENCE By Roberto Assagioli, (Date unknown), From the Assagioli Archive Florence Generally speaking, people in this world are not often […]

What we call the “ordinary self” is as much, or as little, of the “higher Self” as the waking consciousness can take in, assimilate and implement at any given moment. By Roberto Assagioli [1] , Translated and Edited with Notes by Jan Kuniholm. From the Assagioli Archives – Florence, (Doc. 27481), Original Title: Il Misterio […]