Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 8, 1893 Death: March 14, 1970
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on t….
...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes th….
Anxiety is the gap between now and later..
Nothing changes until it becomes what it is..
Awareness in itself is healing..
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How l….
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stu….
We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows..
The person most in control is the person who can give up control..
Lose your mind and come to your senses..
If you are bored, you are not paying attention..
Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight..
Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ….
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is ….
There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope..….
Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible..
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to p….
So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you….
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your exis….
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of d….
Teaching means to show a person that something is possible..