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"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."

"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."

"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."

"We are what we believe we are."

"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."

"Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled."

"Some people are each envious of the person they used to be."

"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person."

"You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it."

"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."
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"What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual."

"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain."

"Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society."

"Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease."

"You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done."
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