Thomas Keating Quotes
God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
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I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
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If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.
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There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime...
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Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
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She’d once asked a black psychologist whose house she’d cleaned on Long Island about black people’s attachment to clothes. She’d told Blanche it probably was partly due to African peoples’ belief in body adornment in a spiritual way, and partly because, consciously or unconsciously, black people in America hoped clothes would make them acceptable to people who hated them no matter what they wore.
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Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.
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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
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Africa has no future.
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
