Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that one should explore various experiences, but only embrace those that are suitable or beneficial.
Virginia Satir's quote, 'Taste everything, but swallow only what fits,' emphasizes the importance of exploring different ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. It encourages openness and curiosity while also advocating for discernment in choosing what to accept or adopt into one's life. In essence, it underscores a balance between exploration and selectivity, suggesting that not everything encountered will be beneficial or appropriate.
In practice
In a self-improvement seminar, this quote can be used to encourage participants to try new strategies but choose what aligns with their values.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Γber Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.
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