The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossomi...
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old...
Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. —Nietzsche
Simtindu-ne neajutorati si derutati in fata aleatorului, a evenimentelor fara nici un tipar aparent, cautam sa le ordonam si, prin aceasta, sa avem senzatia ca le controlam. Chiar mai important decat...
Si indrazneala cu care Nietzsche rostea lucrurile! Incredibil! Sa spui ca speranta e cel mai mare rau! Ca Dumnezeu a murit! Ca adevarul este o greseala fara de care nu putem trai! Ca dusmanii adevarul...
Should we not create—should we not become—before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower.
She was a rigid training analyst in a rigid institute that valued interpretation as the singular effective action of the analyst. Of her thoughtful, dense, and carefully worded interpretations, I reme...
She may have played her role, but you, what role did you play? Were you, and I, so different from her? Did you see her? Or did you, instead, see only prey--a disciple, a plowland for your thoughts, a...
Psychiatric cure is the expanding of the self to such final effect that the patient as known to himself is much the same person as the patient behaving to others.
People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person.
One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more than
One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. Fusion eradicates anxiety in a radical fashion—by eliminating self-awareness. The person who has fallen in love, and entered a...
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
Lucretius’ maxim: ‘Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
I’m looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires,
It’s often pretty hard to speak to others about my cancer. I have a number of pet peeves. Many folks are overly solicitous. They can’t do enough for you. There’s that Kaiser nurse who keeps asking Isn...
In general, e mai bine sa nu ataci un mecanism de aparare, decat daca acesta creeaza mai multe probleme decat solutii si daca ai ceva mai bun de pus in loc.
Impreuna, aceste doua sisteme de convingeri alcatuiesc o dialectica – doua reactii diametral opuse la situatia in care se afla omul. Fiinta umana fie isi declara autonomia prin autoafirmare eroica, fi...
If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.