If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic. — Thomas Szasz, “Schizophrenia,” The Second Sin. (Anchor Press; First edition 1973)
I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. — Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. (Vintage June 23, 1998)
Wasn’t that th+e definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted. — Abraham Verghese, Cutting of the Stone. (Vintage Books February 2009)
As one goes through it, one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it. — R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (Ballatine Books, 1971)
The Vale of Soul-Making 