R.D. Laing

"The heart has its own intelligence that reason cannot access."

"To be authentic is to risk everything that society has taught you to value."

"We are not problems to be solved, but mysteries to be unfolded."

"The oppression of people begins in the mind before it manifests in the world."

"Our fear of death is our fear of life."

"The experience of being truly known is the deepest human need."

"We live in stories we tell ourselves about reality."

"Loneliness is being without the capacity to be alone."

"The greatest revolution will happen in each individual human heart."

"We are all mad; the question is merely a matter of degree."

"Time is a prison we construct together."

"The self-destructive person is also the most creative."

"We become most ourselves when we forget ourselves."

"The only real moral imperatives are to love and to tell the truth."

"We are drowning in facts but starving for wisdom."

"The family is the cradle of violence."

"To be is to be perceived by another consciousness."

"We cannot change the world until we change how we perceive it."

"The deepest poverty is poverty of spirit."

"We are all experts in self-deception."

"Authentic encounter requires the willingness to be changed by the other."

"The price of the repression of emotions is the violence of their return."

"We must learn to listen with our whole being, not just our ears."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it differently."

"We are not born sick; we are made sick by our social arrangements."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"The only way out is through; the only way through is together."

"We live in the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be."

"The spiritual crisis of our age is an inability to believe in anything."

"We are all imprisoned by the consensus reality we have agreed upon."