Sublime

We recognize the distortion of our personality that has been caused by accommodating the needs and concerns of other people. We also see the possibility of living in respectful and mutually empowering relationships. This signals entry into the phase called coexistence.

we gradually realize that what we have come to accept since childhood as our personal identity is inauthentic.

Man had gained control over nature, but only by radically separating himself from it.

7. The Absolute Idealism of Hegel

we were uncovering an ancient and unacknowledged miscarriage of justice.

Leben ist keine Kaskade von Reaktionen, sondern ihr Gegenteil: Autonomie.

Vielmehr existieren wir selbst als ein Wesen aus Fleisch und Blut, das sich nur verstehen kann, wenn es seine Denkkategorien aus der Zugehörigkeit zu einem gigantischen und unabsehbar verwobenen Netz der anderen erfährt.

One of my main goals, then, is to help my patients become aware of their pathogenic beliefs and change them. This is often a slow and difficult process because these beliefs are not factual ones, such as “the earth is flat,” which could be disproved, or opinions like “schools shouldn’t teach sex education,” which could be altered by a persuasive ar

an asocial monster.”