“You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.”
― The Association
― The Association
“Holding on to conditional beliefs about how people should behave toward you because of all you do for them will only set you up to feel disappointment, anger, and resentment to people in particular as well as disillusionment about others in general”
― The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome
― The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome
“I decided that my mind, body, and spirit had worked together to craft the best they could with limited resources, and to see myself as a helpless victim of chronic “mental illness” was merely adding insult to injury.”
― Learning from the Voices in My Head
― Learning from the Voices in My Head
“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“And, fundamentally, diagnoses can deflect attention away from underlying social and emotional problems, wherein branding a scientific name on someone’s distress is never guaranteed to effectively lessen their pain.”
― Learning from the Voices in My Head
― Learning from the Voices in My Head
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