Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the rule, not the exception’, and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
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