“Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.” MenLittlesPastLaborWeightBurdenAccomplishedTiedShiftingPsychoanalysisTherapeutic Book:Freud: The Mind of the Moralist Source: Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
“In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.” TogetherPastIndividualSawsI RealizedTiedBikeMessengers Author:Dania Ramirez
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.” PastMotherClearResponseMalesDeterminedTiedIncapableConditioningBundlesReflexesPast Experiences Book:SCUM Manifesto Source: SCUM Manifesto
“Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.” KindPersonsMadeRealityTodayPastMovingSkyWindStandingStonesFinding YourselfDestinationTiedOur PastCastlesYour PastTrue NaturePostcards Author:Guy Finley