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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,â€� thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything â€� to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.”
― Byron Katie

“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

“His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them.”
― Carey Wallace, The Blind Contessa's New Machine

“We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

“Don't be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness - reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.”
― Tiffany Luard

“If you were easier on yourself, you wouldn't be so tough on everyone else.”
― Kate McGahan

“People outwardly project their innermost insecurities.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Many of you are walking mirrors. So you will forever be projected on. That is why you need to learn how to not take it personally or feed into people’s misconceptions of you. Let it roll off of your back and keep moving forward. They have their own issues and lessons to deal with.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Through shadow projection we are able to turn our enemies into ‘devilsâ€� and convince ourselves that they are not men and women like ‘usâ€�, but monsters unworthy of humane consideration. National leaders can make unscrupulous use of this propensity in order to achieve their own political purposes”
― Anthony Stevens, On Jung

“When there is mutual shadow projection between individuals, groups, or nations, each side has an unconscious investment in the other playing out the projected evil so as to prove their own self-righteous innocence. What ensues is a vicious cycle that ensures that neither side has to look at their own darkness. This dynamic fastens the two sides together, as if in their mutual projections there is an elastic band tying them together, and this dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. As such, it gives both parties clear justification to feel victimized by the other as well as continually feeding the diabolical polarization in the field.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“...Personality projection is well documented. In fact, it's the second-most-common cause of so-called demonic possession. The most common being schizophrenia...”
― Stephen King

“The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.”
― Marty Rubin

“As Within, So Without.”
― Kenneth Meadows, Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel

“Gef became the receptacle of all Irving’s misspent wants and frustrations, a focal point for the things the family could not say aloud. He could have Jim’s broader knowledge, Voirrey’s adolescence, and Margaret’s witchery. He could be the son from whom Jim had become estranged, the friend Voirrey did not find in Peel, the desirous confidante that Margaret could not find in her husband.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Most people feel no particular need to make these shadow projections conscious, although by refusing to do so they place themselves in an extremely precarious state. If this is true for the individual as microcosm, it is surely true for the nation as macrocosm. " The psychology of war has clearly brought this condition to light: everything which are own nation does is good, everything which the other nations do is wicked. The center of all that is mean and vile is always to be found several miles behind the enemy's lines." This statement written by Jung in 1928 is as applicable today as it was when it was written. How tragically we watch as the inhumanities of war perpetrated by our own side are justified as being in the long run for the common good, while those of the enemy become a justification for the continuations of our own immorality. It is only when our own youth return from the war zones, wounded and drug-ridden and sick in their souls that those who stay at home and watch the war from a lounge chair propped up before a television set begin to get the message.”
― June Singer, Boundaries of the Soul, Revised and Updated: The Practice of Jung's Psychology

“That first love warrants careful consideration. In recognizing what was projected then, we can often see the same projection recurring in every serious relationship. Part of the projection is neurotic; part is a genuine yearning for the Beloved. The projection itself may become a betrayerâ€� in a man, the maiden in the tower; in a woman, the rescuing knight. If not recognized as projections, these inner images become the ultimate betrayers of oneself. We cannot look to another human being to complete our soul process. The inner marriage is a divine marriage, the outer marriage a human one.”
― Marion Woodman, The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women

“It's not that there is nothing real to fear--
it is that fear itself is not rationally based--
it's projecting into the future--
as irrational and projecting as hope,
equally possible and impossible.

But hope emboldens us and fear paralyzes us.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The truth is that we choose which reality we want to see and live. Look around you. If you’re not satisfied with your current reality, let’s reprogram the thoughts that are projecting that.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin.”
― Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

“He found it very difficult to acknowledge that the pattern of false idealization, ambivalence, rejection and abandonment was set up inside himself and projected onto every woman het met.”
― James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“Beware projection - in all directions.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I hate now for men to dote in this way, the ones who don't know me. Their praise lands uncertainly in the air somewhere between the two of us, because it doesn't belong to me. I hate to hear them tell me what I am, even or especially when what they think I am is kind or brilliant or beautiful. I hate when they insist that I have no faults, that my laziness or violence or cruelty simply don't exist.

When they speak this way I am even less in my body than usual, feeling the sickness of a stranger look me in the eye and describe what is not there. What I am feeling is their disregard for my reality. I am being made to wear whatever particular fantasy they wish to project.

Each time it happens I have to restrain myself from screaming in their faces to prove I am not what they believe me to be. In these moments I am happy with my ugliness and want them to see it. Whatever badness I am I want to be it, to be as much like whatever my self is as possible; as far from the stranger's projection as possible.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“At every moment, anyone who dares to predict the future depends largely on the projection of present trends: but as the microbiologist Rene Dubos has said, "Trend is not destiny." Malthus wisely never put much rhetorical force into his predictions of future population size. He deserves neither positive nor negative credit in this area.

A word about prediction. Embarrassing experiences, coupled with Dubos's warning, have led demographers to state repeatedly that they do not make predictions: only projections â€� projections of present trends. Trends may change with little warning. After two repetitions in the daily press, what begins as a projection metamorphoses into a prediction in the minds of readers. In spite of their warnings, demographers are repeatedly castigated for making predictions that don't come true.”
― Garrett Hardin, The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia

“Most real-world villains do not really see themselves as villains, and they despise heroes generally because they do not recognize heroes. An evil man assumes that anyone willing to do the right thing is no less rotten on the inside than he, and that there is always some ulterior motive. He hates the righteous man not because he hates righteousness, but because he knows only how to project ill will.”
― Criss Jami

“Projecting the abjection that haunts us onto the Other: how do we avoid ceding to this, which nourishes our phantasms and sometimes our mass graves?â€� The ego-flesh would have to confront its torment, take it up in itself, instead of projecting it outside of itself: from that hole of jouissance in which the Thing pulses, from where that ancient wound was, I must come forth to myself and to my body—but I will be able to do so only if I had already been there, only if I recognized this wound as mine, and this unnamable Thing as the flesh of my flesh.”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis

“Those who feel superior do not need to show it, and those who need to show they are superior, feel inferior.”
― Jack Freestone