#al

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ↗

#health #measure #profoundly #sick #sick society

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. ↗

#desire #essential #freedom #freedom from #problem

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#attention #being #completely #give #heart

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#awaiting #beginning #end #hidden #pain

This was truly to be a radical milestone: the world’s first-ever marathon nude psychotherapy session for criminal psychopaths. Elliott’s raw, naked, LSD-fueled sessions lasted for epic eleven day stretches. The psychopaths spent every waking moment journeying to their darkest corners in an attempt to get better. There were no distractions—no television, no clothes, no clocks, no calendars, only a perpetual discussion (at least one hundred hours every week) of their feelings. When they got hungry, they sucked food through straws that protruded through the walls. As during Paul Bindrim’s own nude psychotherapy sessions, the patients were encouraged to go to their rawest emotional places by screaming and clawing at the walls and confessing fantasies of forbidden sexual longing for one another... ↗

— Jon Ronson

#experimental #lsd #nudity #psychopath #psychotherapy

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#become #dollars #fact #far #get

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you. ↗

— Tina Turner

#inside #need #problems #really #take

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#always #film #film industry #him #industry

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#biology #die #each #half #kills

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health. ↗