Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

- Eugene Gendlin

If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.

- Eugene Gendlin

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

- Eugene Gendlin

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and s…

- Eugene Gendlin

Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing ho…

- Eugene Gendlin

I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.

- Eugene Gendlin

You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is …

- Eugene Gendlin

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what…

- Eugene Gendlin

Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.

- Eugene Gendlin