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…

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation...

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation...

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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

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

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we...

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we...

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and...

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and...

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.