Our business should be liberating the human spirit. Or if that's too idealistic for you, if that strikes you as the business of religion -- which it should be, too -- then our business should be assisting people to function -- crazily or not isn't our concern; that's up to them -- helping them to function on whatever level or levels of 'sanity' they choose to function on, not helping them to adjust and locking them up if they don't adjust.
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However, normality is a neurosis. Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization. It's rare to discover someone who hasn't been infected, to greater or lesser degree, by that neurosis.
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
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