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- From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
- What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from…
- We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from…
- The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from…
- The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many…
- There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying…
- Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A…
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