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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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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No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!
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As I once heard Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan say: “The task of describing most private experiences can be likened to reaching down to a deep well to pick up small fragile crystal figures while you are wearing thick leather mittens.
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Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity?”
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
