Infancy Quote by R. D. Laing Download Open image “We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.” — R. D. Laing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infancy Trance
“You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves in the third person, like little children. They… — Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant. — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“To counter our intense cultural conditioning, we must possess a sense of curious engagement to venture into the unconscious. Even though it's a part… — Robert Waggoner Copy Share Image
“…Obviously, I have always wished I could remember what happened in that wood. The very few people who know about the whole Knocknaree thing… — Tana French Copy Share Image
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When we were first born, Spirit was our predominate guide, but as we ‘matured,’ our society quickly cured us of that.” — Doug Burnett Copy Share Image
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
