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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
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"Be yourself, that is all there is."
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"You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy."
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"I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person."
"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"
"We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently."
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