Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Ronald David Laing
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
live die afraid realize love
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
people help
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
guilt people
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
life
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
pain life
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
worth life
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
deeds change
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
change history
death
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
strategy order experience
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
culture nations society
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
man men society
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
imagination
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
rules
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