In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. R. D. Laing More Quotes by R. D. Laing More Quotes From R. D. Laing Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing insane-world crazy depression If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless. R. D. Laing company-you-keep passion spring A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad. R. D. Laing mad taken children The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. R. D. Laing learning men children We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. R. D. Laing sentimental realizing love Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality. R. D. Laing faults mind reality Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. R. D. Laing deceiving capacity lying Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. R. D. Laing this-life pain life-is The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. Laing shapes spiritual thinking True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer. R. D. Laing ego self reality Life is a sexually transmitted disease. R. D. Laing sexually-transmitted-diseases life funny Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. R. D. Laing breakthrough enlightenment psychological We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. R. D. Laing society nature class Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. R. D. Laing psychology love life Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. R. D. Laing abdication betrayal normal What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being. R. D. Laing denial normal depression Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. R. D. Laing independence insanity negative The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing learning change knowledge Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. R. D. Laing insane-world break-through insanity The way out is through the door you came in. R. D. Laing perspective healing doors
