R. D. Laing Quotes

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.