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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Accurate Blackmail Children Feeling Good Health Language Mad Moral Morality Sanity Scientific Speak
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPS

End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPS

Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way

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