"You’re like a person driving the car; he doesn’t ever want to lose consciousness of the car. It’s all right to daydream, but not to lose consciousness of your surroundings."
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"You can Love only when you are alone. What does it mean to Love? It means to see a person, a situation as it really is, not as you imagine it to be. And to give the response it deserves. You can hardly be said to be in Love when you do not even see."
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"To be without the drug is so unbearable a torment that is seems preferable to die. Think of that image, the body has gotten addicted tot he drug. You were given a taste for the drug called approval, appreciation, attention."
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"When a child is sure of his mother's Love, he forgets his mother; he goes out to explore the world; he is curious. His mother's always been threatening in many subtle ways to abandon him."
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"When you are ignored or disapproved of you experience a loneliness so unbearable that you crawl back to people and beg for the comforting drug called support and encouragement. you've got to live up to expectations. To be with people is to live in tension. "
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"One no longer sees others as means of satisfying one's addictions. Only someone who has attempted this knows the terrors of the process. It's like inviting yourself to die. It's like asking the poor drug addict to give up the only happiness he has ever known."
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"If God isn't leading to life, of what use is religion except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism." "You do not have the wind, the stars, and the rain. You don't possess these things; you surrender to them."
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