- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
- Cautious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm cautious about a lot of words.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020