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“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. – Mark Twain (1835–1910)”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“The enforcement of the compulsory smallpox vaccination law in 1867, when the death rate was already falling, was accompanied by an increase in the deaths from 100 to 400 deaths per million.”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“Carl Jung wrote: “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”
― Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
― Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
“It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.”
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
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