“ When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents. ”
What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
~ R. D. Laing
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.