black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

Related Topics

Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPS

Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
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
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
You write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Believe Find Out Writing
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Change Discover Life Psychoanalytic Thing Treatment Yourself
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPS

End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPS

Child Children Independent People Self Try
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
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
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Art Big Secret True Want
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
ADAM PHILLIPS

Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Hatred Most Self Stupid

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes