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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

- R. D. Laing
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Kita adalah makhluk yang bingung dan gila, asing dengan diri kita yang sebenarnya, satu sama lain, dan bagi dunia spiritual dan material - gila, bahkan, dari sudut pandang ideal kita dapat melihat sekilas tetapi tidak dapat mengadopsi.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.