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.
From R. D. Laing
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.
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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.
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.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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