Addict Quote by Sheldon B. Kopp

“There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)”

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“Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the pilgrim. (24)”

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I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when…

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“Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she was, there…

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“Unwilling to tolerate life’s ambiguity, its unresolvability, its inevitability, we search for certainty, demanding that someone else must provide it. Stubbornly, relentlessly, we seek…

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But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else.…

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“You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.”

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