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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."
"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."
"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family."
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
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