Quotes About Compulsion

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It

Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.

people will often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego-gratification and things to identify with in order to fill this hole they feel within. So they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship, basically so that they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity]

awareness is itself a solvent. Simply allowing a thought, idea, anxiety or compulsion to rest within the field of awareness will dissolve that thought, idea and so on.

The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.

Si sa che agli uomini il bene bisogna, le più volte, farlo per forza.

I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

Collection is an addiction.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

My compulsion is to create things.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.