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

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.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
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 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 past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
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
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPS

Child Children Independent People Self Try
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPS

End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Hatred Most Self Stupid
We are children for a very long time.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Children Long Time Very

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