31 Quotes by Brad Blanton

Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

Dean Rusk never beat his wife. He was a decent man. He was a liberal. He was head of the Ford Foundation. And as Secretary of State during the Vietnam war, he killed over a hundred thousand people in a useless, wasteful, unnecessary, stupid war. We would all be better off if he had found a better way to express his anger. His time is passing with the turn of the century.

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also have to do with cleaning up. Cleaning up lies and "coming out of the closet" is getting more attention these days. Some day we will look back on these years of suffocation in bullsh*t in the same way we look back on all the years people lived in, and died from, their garbage.

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What’s the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

Love is when you let someone be the way they are.

The kind of lying that is most deadly is withholding, or keeping back information from someone we think would be affected by it.

Meaninglessness is of great value. When you finally get that who you actually are is empty and meaningless, it doesn’t matter to you whether you are a jerk or not. There is where your power lives.