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R. D. Laing

"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."

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"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control."

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"I have a copy of you in my brain, when you make me angry I do very bad things to you."

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"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"

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"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."

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"To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery."

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"Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively."

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"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history."

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"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."

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"Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings."

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"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."
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"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."
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"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
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