When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world,… - Sheldon B. Kopp
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world,…
- Sheldon B. Kopp
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared - Sheldon B. Kopp
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is… - Sheldon B. Kopp
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is…
Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowin… - Sheldon B. Kopp
Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowin…
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. - Sheldon B. Kopp
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
Often things are as bad as they seem. - Sheldon B. Kopp
Often things are as bad as they seem.
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. - Sheldon B. Kopp
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. - Sheldon B. Kopp
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.
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