R.D. Laing

"The suppression of natural instinct is the root of neurosis."

"There is no such thing as a schizophrenic, only people experiencing different realities."

"Alienation is the experience of being estranged from oneself."

"We are all victims of our own rationality."

"The goal of life is not happiness but authenticity."

"Language shapes how we perceive reality."

"We cannot change what we refuse to acknowledge."

"The self emerges through authentic dialogue with others."

"Society teaches us to fear our own nature."

"True freedom is the absence of internal compulsion."

"We must learn to see without being seen."

"The experience of being loved is the foundation of being human."

"Our potential for growth is infinite if we remove the barriers we place on ourselves."

"The tyranny of normality is more oppressive than any external force."

"We are estranged from ourselves before we are estranged from others."

"Compassion requires that we enter into another person's inner world."

"The integration of the self is the work of a lifetime."

"We cannot love another until we love ourselves."

"The disease we suffer from is the denial of our own being."

"Every act of violence begins with the denial of empathy."

"We are all experiencing existential exile."

"The capacity to wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"We must find the revolutionary within ourselves before we can change the world."

"The self is not a thing but a process of becoming."

"To be fully human is to be fully alive to your own experience."

"We are imprisoned by our concepts before we are imprisoned by our circumstances."

"Authentic living requires the courage to stand alone."

"We cannot heal what we do not feel."

"The world needs people who are at peace with themselves."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."