True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.
R. D. LaingWhat we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
R. D. LaingThere is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. LaingChildren do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing